Every major site uses a hardware RNG. Stars even has links to the specific model they use (it uses entropy from micro temperature fluctuations) with extensive documented proof.

FTP also uses a well-known brand.
***********************ftp used a well known brand, info is not on there site and testing of it is not on there site. Therefore, i don't know what they use and please don't direct me to some forum post of a site that was popular 5 years ago. Anyways, who cares right people still play and it appears to be within normal guidelines. Like i said, stars needs to cancel the vip program and the fallout should be minimum, looks like a no brainer to me.

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*** cake wasted there time posting this and spending money on testing...dumb mgmt

seems like there is many systems out there for rng or randomness of cards..cake poker just told you so **********Consequently, Cake Poker investigated many systems and algorithms before deciding on implementation of what we believe is a superior solution.

Email support - they will send you all the relevant information.

why are you here again now?

we get it - you think online poker isn't fair for whatever reason. why don't you get that no one is interested in what you think?

you know when people say stuff like "If I could convince just one person... then it would all be worthwhile" ?

you haven't convinced one person.

please, no more drinking and posting tonight. and preferably no other night.

hey devilboy---



you gonna take me up on my $1million dollar bet? i got the funds.

I don't have a million but I'll ship my entire roll to a mod and you can match it. Then we have a bet.

Deal?

so you are going to prove that the top ten networks have legit RNGs for ring games and mtts/sngs thru statistical analysis?

wow!

we have a deal.

in the meantime, can anyone point me in the direction of any analysis done in the last couple years for any site? ive found a couple for pokerstars and party back in 2003, but that is it.

No the bet is that it's possible to generate true random numbers using a hardware RNG. You said that this is impossible. I disagree. That's what I'm betting on.

this is a fact. no reason to bet on it.

i will bet you any amount of money that you cant prove that the top ten networks have legit RNGs for ring games and mtts/sngs thru statistical analysis?

that was my original bet, i did a bad job of explaining myself. i often have that problem.

We're not talking about computers. We're talking about hardware RNGs.

Here's what I posted earlier:

Then you said
I'm willing to bet you that your statement above is incorrect. It is possible to generate true random numbers with a hardware RNG

That quote about computers not being able to do random numbers using math has nothing to do with hardware RNGs.

You will need to define "true random numbers" very well in order to win. Quantum physics is still a bit iffy on the subject.

devilboy, something wrong with you?? i shouldn't have to email them, it should be listed on there site. Next, ftp sean agreed with me and is forwarding the suggestion to mgmt

OMG they didn't put the link on their website SCAM SCAM

What you said....

And also if somebody replies to one of his posts, and has kermit the frog in their avatar, he cares more to focus on that than the arguments made. As if having kermit in my avatar hurts my credibility. What he doesn't realize is that the avatar also says something, and can be applied directly to him.

scorer, those of us who have played hundreds of thousands of hands profitably on Full Tilt, and have run pokerEV graphs and setometer results over time have pretty much proven to ourselves everything is fine. Whether or not FTP wants to post data about their rng becomes pretty irrelevant at that point. While it would be great and all if they chose to throw something on their webpage, it would only be stating the obvious.

You're a muppet!

kermit out

The scenario we are talking cannot happen over 1 hand, it happens over 6 hands, and to have it happen you would need to see on average half a billion hands.

If half a billion hands are dealt throughout the world every day then the chances are it will happen once every day, but nobody would notice it because those 6 hands will have been dealt to different people on different sites all over the world.

For it to happen to just one person is a longshot the likes of which most people would never see in their lifetime. The point here is that for the OP to make this claim means they are either lying, or have been unlucky on a level that most of us will never experience.

that was pretty much my point, except for it happening to one person. like I said, I was on a general concept, not a specific event. still, you explained it better than I did, so thanks.
yeah, would take a real Munson to have that happen to them.

So, if random numbers exist, then can you rig it randomly ? In that case- how could you find a pattern of riggedness when it is completely random ? Does that make any sense ?

god i just started playing hear...i can't believe otherwise that is not rigged...because...IT IS!!

I had full house Kings full of sevens, but guess what? One idiot had trips 6, cmon....you all know what happened when I went all in and the idiot called, out came the river....guess what it was?

A F___CKIN 6!!!!!!!! WTF?????????

I play conservatively because I believe this site has weird simulators, and even when I have something like AK and someone else has A9, guess what comes up on the flop? 678. But wait...the turn will be another Ace. It's all up to the river card now...my opponent has gun shot and out comes a 10 to complete the straight and beat my ACES YET AGAIN!

Man, I wish I took screenshots of my other bad beats which are HIGHLY IMPROBABLE!

Here is one where me and another guy when ALL-IN with each of us having A8 suited. Guess what...he caught the F__UCKIN FLUSH!!! Whats the chances we both have A8 suited, and one of us catches a flush on the board???

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/282/badbeatoa0.png


RIGGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

at least he brought proof.

If it would take 500 million hands on average for AA to be cracked by a lower pair 6 consecutive times, then of course it could happen at any time within that 500 million hands no matter how early.

If you take 10000 people who have each played 50000 hands that is 500 million hands. The chances are it would have happened to one of them, and maybe okiehustler was that 1 in 10000 person this time.

So to sum it up okiehustler, the games are not rigged, you just became variance's bitch. It's like having the amount of luck needed to win the lottery in reverse. On the bright side though you don't lose $10 million for being that unlucky.

How many of us can relate to this guy?

He is RIGHT ON!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89tSAxAu0c

I somehow don't quite believe he never lost w/TP3K to TPTK once. Or an overpair to a set. But maybe he took his turn in the variance barrel that week?

Thats funny.

"I have something like AK and someone else has A9, guess what comes up on the flop? 678. But wait...the turn will be another Ace. It's all up to the river card now...my opponent has gun shot and out comes a 10 to complete the straight and beat my ACES YET AGAIN!"



I call BS that he had a gun shot or a gutshot.