Absolute Poker Integrity?

[spicychili]

I want to play at this site.

http://www.absolutepoker.com/pokerInfoIntegrity.asp
quote from the bottom of this page.
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"A deck of 52 cards can be shuffled in 52! ways. 52! is about 2225. We use 249 random bits from both entropy sources (user input and thermal noise) to achieve an even and unpredictable statistical distribution."

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I want to know what kind of calculator they are using.

I am sure this is just a marketing oversight but come on, 52! is a far cry from 2225.

[Siegmund]

A simple typographical error. They mean 52! ~ 2^225, and therefore one should use a random number generator of more than 225 bits to make sure all permutations of the deck are possible.

Very easy to accidentally cut and paste code from a browser that doesn't support the SUB and SUPER tags, and have the 2 and the 225 show up side-by-side in the pasted version.

[NoTalent]

ooops already answered...

[MicroBob]

I prefer to think that they only have 2225 ways of shuffling the deck.
No wonder I kept seeing the same hands over and over when I was playing there!!!

Now I'll know that when i get AA in seat 6 that the guy in seat 2 will hit a set of deuces on the river. It's all about pattern recognition.


It's like Trivial Pursuit....after you play a few times you become familiar with the repeats.