A question about "shuffling" online

[RuFFNeXX]

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If the Full Tilt post is true, then now I know why I do not play there anymore. The proper procedure is Party Poker and Poker Stars shuffling. Cards should not be reshuffled after the deal; only before the deal.

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And here is another one that has me scratching my head? Are you people that clueless? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Voltaire]

They know. They're just being sarcastic.

I have noticed that at 2+2 oneupmanship requires that when somebody posts something "dumb" or in grevious error, the sharp response is not to correct the poster but to play off of the error to show one's sophistication. Sometimes the satire is pretty funny.

[RuFFNeXX]

Oh, thanks. CardCounter's sacasm was obvious the others weren't so obvious. I actually started to wonder about the others. Guess the jokes on me.

[Voltaire]

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Cards should not be reshuffled after the deal; only before the deal.

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Yogi Berra would appreciate this!

The cards at Full Tilt are reshuffled during the hand for security purposes. Although neither Party nor Stars is unambiguously specific about this, I suspect that they also reshuffle during the hand for the same reason.

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When a real deck of shuffled cards are dealt, to players at the table, the order of the cards in the deck obviously do not change. Therefore, the cards dealt pre-flop, don't change the flop cards, turn card or river card. (In a B&M casino,if you fold a pair of two's on the button in a 4 way raised pot, and a pair of two's flops with a king, then a ace on the turn, and a queen on the river--you probably would have won a huge pot)

However, internet poker Random Number Generator's give a very different result. The "fair and random" distribution of cards is simulated mathematically with random events such as time of day, number of players, chip stacks, bet sizes, and even the number of mouse clicks. These variables approximate randomness and change in real-time. Next, these variable are entered into an algorithim to determine the cards that come off the deck.

What this means in internet poker is that if you are dealt a pair of two's on the button in a multi-way raised pot and you fold, if a pair of two's flops, the pair of two's WOULD NOT HAVE HIT THE FLOP if you had not folded. Furthermore, all the "random" events discussed above effect the turn card, and finally the river card.

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Which would be even huger if the flop was, instead, 2-A-K, Q on the turn, and another 2 on the river. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]