DaveMEL
12-01-2004, 06:38 PM
Here's a question I've been wanting to ask for ages - please forgive me if it's already been asked.
In a B&M card room, the sequence of the cards is determined at the end of the shuffle & cut. Thus, if you fold J9o before the flop and the flop comes T Q K you 100% know you would have flopped a straight.
But what about online ? Can you be as sure what you would have had ?? I think the intuitive view of >90% of the players would be that you could - but I'm not so sure. There's no reason for the software to pick the cards in one go up front - I would have thought it would go to its RNG and pick the next card "on demand" - just like a slot machine does. In fact, this could also aid security such that there's no way it could then be hacked to see what the next card would be.
So, if I'm right, this would mean that you can never tell what "you would have flopped", because if you called it would be another <x> seconds until the RNG did it's thing and thus an entirely different outcome (most probably) than if you had folded and the RNG picked the next card at an earlier point in time. And that could mean less stress when you think you missed something good (on any street).
Thoughts (or THE answer) ? It's probably in some site's integrity blurb somewhere - but I haven't had the chance to wade through it all yet.
Dave/MEL.
In a B&M card room, the sequence of the cards is determined at the end of the shuffle & cut. Thus, if you fold J9o before the flop and the flop comes T Q K you 100% know you would have flopped a straight.
But what about online ? Can you be as sure what you would have had ?? I think the intuitive view of >90% of the players would be that you could - but I'm not so sure. There's no reason for the software to pick the cards in one go up front - I would have thought it would go to its RNG and pick the next card "on demand" - just like a slot machine does. In fact, this could also aid security such that there's no way it could then be hacked to see what the next card would be.
So, if I'm right, this would mean that you can never tell what "you would have flopped", because if you called it would be another <x> seconds until the RNG did it's thing and thus an entirely different outcome (most probably) than if you had folded and the RNG picked the next card at an earlier point in time. And that could mean less stress when you think you missed something good (on any street).
Thoughts (or THE answer) ? It's probably in some site's integrity blurb somewhere - but I haven't had the chance to wade through it all yet.
Dave/MEL.