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Originally Posted by marino1010
I'm fulfilling my scholarly writing requirement in law school by writing about poker (sometimes, life is just great). A major part of my paper is comparing the skill in b&m games to online games. I don't play online, but have heard from numerous people that the "deck odds" online are very, very, very close to that of a physical 52 card deck, but it is not exactly the same (and the algorithm could possibly be cracked, etc). The terms and conditions for FT and PS are long, and link to numerous other terms and conditions. Instead of wading through all of that like a good student should, I figured I would turn to the community to see if anyone had a link handy that would give me what I need. Looking for legal language from major poker sites along the lines of "(insert site here) represents that its game play is virtually the same as that of an in-person poker game. (insert site here)'s algorithm is based on 52 randomized cards with an error rate of 0.0000000013%" or something like that. Basically I want the magic language that shows that the online games operate on an algorithm instead of real life (even if they are virtually the same- I'm actually arguing that they are in the paper, I just need this language). Thanks all
Is this really something you feel the need to acknowledge or argue in a school paper? Seems pretty tangential and irrelevant to the degrees of skill in the game IMO. I'd just rest assured that all modern RNG algorithms are both sufficiently random and much more random than hand shuffling.
Anyway, this might be the closest thing to what you're looking for:
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/rng/