virtual decks

[yabastid]

Don't know if anyone knows the answer to this question and I am just curious. When playing a poker hand online is the deck set? That is, are the cards in an order once the hands start and regardless of when an action is chosen the next card will be the 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (for example) no matter what?

If I shuffle a deck of cards the cards will come out in the same order a second from now and a year from now provided no one touches them. Does the same hold true online? Or are the cards in some sort of contuously random shuffle and the next card is more the product of a click of the mouse than something already preset?

thanks,

yabastid