Is Online Poker Subject A Game Subject to Chance? (Philosophy)

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Let me preface this by saying 2 things:

1) I am not an expert in random number generation, and
2) I think that the Online Gaming Act was intended to include poker.

That said, as I understand it the key phrase which bolsters the opinion that this act applies to Poker is the definition of a bet or wager which paraphrased is "risking something of value on the outcome of a game subject to chance"

I know most people here will agree that in the long term, poker results are determined by skill and not chance.

My question is are the outcomes of online poker REALLY determined by chance?

In otherwords, is the manner in which the cards are dealt REALLY a matter of chance, necessarily? Isn't the answer to this question determined by the mechanism the site uses to generate the suffle? I will grant that the sites strive to create the illusion of chance to the participants, and hopefully they succeed, but the illusion of chance to the participants does not necessarily mean that the cards dealt were "subject to chance" it simply means that they were not known by the participants.

Regardless of the current state of random number generation in online poker (whether they truly incorporate elements of chance) it would seem possible to generate a shuffle which did not incorporate "chance" but still was sufficiently unpredictable to the participants.

Perhaps this is all hair splitting, but then again, sometimes the law splits hairs.

Any comments?