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"We found from someone we met that random number generators on poker sites are powered by actual physical devices (e.g. lava lamps), and the results are cached
by blader 20y ago
"We found from someone we met that random number generators on poker sites are powered by actual physical devices (e.g. lava lamps), and the results are cached for many thousands of hands in advance. So in a very loose sense, everything that happens in an online poker hand is predetermined. Since we're both big on poker, we found that kind of a mindfuck."
- BrandonM 20y agoHmm... you could argue that everything in a real world poker hand is predetermined since the cards are shuffled before they are dealt and they are not reordered thereafter. Of course, if you're playing online, future hands are also predetermined, a property that is not typically true when you are playing in real life, so I guess that makes it strange. The thing to keep in mind, though, is that as long as no one has the means to predict what will happen during a given hand (aside from using standard probability), then the game might as well not be predetermined. It's basically the same as the free will vs. destiny argument, as far as I can tell.
- gyro_robo 20y agoNot for variants like Stud, where people folding changes who gets which card next. For THE, the cards are predetermined from the start of the hand anyway, so the only difference ever is the betting.