[BruinEric]

Good stuff. I'm surprised you only have a few posts here -- good to see you over here too.

I know Full Tilt uses the 'shuffling during the hand' method from comments by Howard Lederer, but since the Paradise summary was unclear to me at best on this point, I chose to take the simplest possible method (deck chosen at beginning of hand and set until hand completion) and use that as my elementary introduction to the topic.

If an algorithm can truly support selection of all 52! decks, then either method is truly random and the cards are not predictable. Even after a player sees his hole cards and 3 flop cards, there would still be 47! possible card orderings for the unseen cards. Any predictability from a set deck at the beginning of a hand is still impossible.

I will make a few edits to the article, thanks.