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In either case, two critical facts emerge:
1. Because timing and other random factors affect future cards in the very same hand, you can not use the currently dealt cards and knowledge of the random functions in use to determine future cards. I've written about this on
this Random Number Generator Wiki page.
2. This also means that you can't tell what "would have happened" if you stayed in a hand vs. folded. If you went back in time and made a different play, the different timings, movements, server delays, etc., would result in a different random card being dealt for the turn and river. This is
unlike B&M poker, where the turn and river cards are pre-determined when they shuffling is done. It's also healthier for poker players! I wrote about that on a wiki page called
Free Your Mind.
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For party and paradise perhaps. I would note that Stars deck is set at the beginning of the hand, the cards that come off are the ones you would have gotten if you'd stayed in.
--Zetack