[shagjohn]

A piece of spam I received today:
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The PPS Tracker is used specifically to view upcoming cards at online poker tables. The software works by statistically cracking the random seed from the poker room's RNG (Random Number Generator) code.

PPS Tracker will allow you to see upcoming cards at your poker table. Imagine knowing if your hole cards were going to flop huge before the flop. Now Imagine winning more pots and cashing in at the right times.

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Thought it might be inappropriate to post the link to the website. Normally I'd just disregard this as more meaningless SPAM, but I did see a documentary on the Discovery channel about an inside guy being able to crack the random number generator of a BINGO system in a casino, and then used it. He got caught of course, hence the show.

My BS detector definitely flagged this (if someone really cracked the random number generator, why the hell would they publish it?), but knowing it may be remotely possible, I was wondering what you all thought? I don't know anything about the poker sites and what their random number gen inputs are, but I'd have hoped they'd make this virtually impossible?

(However, it does solve that nagging feeling getting bad-beat to death where I was down 50+BB w/ AA at 2/4 at one point) [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[hope this is the right place for this]