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04-22-2024 , 04:06 PM

Kalql8

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Join Date: Apr 2024 Posts: 1

Can anyone recommend an online poker site where the deals are truly random?
I have played a number of sites and the hands are never actually random.

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04-22-2024 , 06:39 PM

stremba70

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Join Date: Aug 2020 Posts: 1,128

Your data to demonstrate this is where? Humans have a great ability to look at seemingly random data and detect underlying patterns. The downside of this ability is that humans also have the ability to look at actually random data and pick out patterns that are not actually there.

Suppose you flipped a coin 10000 times and you noticed that it came up heads 10 times in a row. Would you conclude that the coin was nonrandom? Explain your answer.

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04-22-2024 , 07:57 PM

VBAces

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,476

I have played on a lot of poker sites over the years and the best evidence I have suggest that they all deal random hands. Many people on the internet have claimed that one site or another is rigged, and biased in some way. Not a single one has presented any evidence to support this claim.

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04-23-2024 , 05:25 AM

DisRuptive1

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Randomness doesn't actually exist. What we consider to be random is just based on our ignorance of the underlying physics. Computer programs are even less random usually requiring some sort of outside input in order to seed a number generator through some large calculations. That said, there is not enough variables in the way to arrange a deck in order to see a difference between true randomness and the way computers randomize a deck (despite how incomprehensibly enormous 52 factorial is).

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04-23-2024 , 07:12 PM

AlanBostick

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Originally Posted by DisRuptive1

Randomness doesn't actually exist. What we consider to be random is just based on our ignorance of the underlying physics. Computer programs are even less random usually requiring some sort of outside input in order to seed a number generator through some large calculations. That said, there is not enough variables in the way to arrange a deck in order to see a difference between true randomness and the way computers randomize a deck (despite how incomprehensibly enormous 52 factorial is).

Herr doktors Schrödinger and Heisenberg would like to have a brief word with you.

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