How random are the random number generators?

[Piece of Cake]

Any clue how many hands have been played on pokerstars? If truly random, seemingly rare events, actually become likely over a large sample. In fact, the absence of these seemingly rare events becomes unlikely (a 1 in a million event, for example, should occur 100 times on average over 100 million hands.) If these 1 in a millions never occurred over a 1 billion hand sample we should be wary. That is, if I never heard about something like this happening I would be more worried about things being non-random.

but really NVG? maybe move this to the math forum or bbv - yes now that I think about it - this must be a thinly veiled beat that I was too dense to notice? ISSCKM after replying to this. lifetilt initiate