Burning Cards On-line

[RustyBrooks]

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David, In your last paragraph you suggest that a burn procedure would have an affect on the deck. Would this impact play? My argument all along has been to include the burns in some virtual games to make the virtual and casino games procedurally equivalant.


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He was wrong (I think he admitted this in a later post), burning a card does not affect the outcome. Burning all the cards but one does not affect the outcome.

This sometimes helps people (and sometimes not). Instead of thinking of a bag of cards, think of a stack of cards. Every possible ordering of the cards is equally likely, right? You have the choice to draw one card off the top, or burn and draw the next card.

The As is the top card 1/10 times. It's the 2nd card 1/10 times. It's the 3rd card 1/10 times, and so forth.

So, drawing the first card means you get the A 1/10 times
Burning 1 and drawing the 2nd card means you get the A 1/10 times
Burning 2 and drawing the 3rd card means you get the A 1/10 times
and so forth.