Anybody play at MansionPoker?

[2Tone]

2+2 steal. A Scary but apparently authentic admission on their part of a problem in which the exact same hand was dealt twice a row. Creepy if true.

Hello xxx,

Firstly thank you for taking the time to raise your concerns with us. After receiving your emails we have investigated the issue in order to isolate the events to which you referred and to then determine the cause.

As our players will know all too well, MANSIONPoker has experienced its share of instability during its early months of operation. We have been able to determine that a combination of events occurred on 28 July 2006 that did result in the same hand being dealt to two separate tables. The cause of the error was diagnosed to be a game result being delivered to Game 3211077 at which time the server controlling that game lost connection with the main Poker controller. This caused the main controller to then reallocate that decision to Game 3211099 on a separate node of the poker network.

We have on 21 August made changes to our main Poker controller to ensure this situation cannot reoccur and have over the past days undertaken extensive system testing to verify the changes have worked.

[GeoffM]

I was always of the impression that every single card was random, not every single "game" (as they use the term). This is some really messed up shit. I had looked into signing up there a while back, but now I am glad I didn't.

[2Tone]

I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye on the thread over there, just out of curiosity. The email seems to authentic/elaborate to be a fake, but the admission is so crazy, it is hard to believe this could be the case.

[GeoffM]

Has anyone posted the hand histories of the 2 hands?

[Robbie Robb]

Yeah, the hands were posted in the original thread over there. They were absolutely identical. I was thinking of putting some money into Mansion in hopes of getting onto the PokerDome Challenge. I haven't yet and think I'll hold off a bit now. I've also heard that cashing out there is a bit of a pain but that's just a few extra hoops to jump through. No biggie there. But if their card generator is cranking out identical hands within minutes of each other...

[2Tone]

Assuming TP doesn't mind the link ...



Hand history is included. Thread has interesting back and forth -- the posters have a low post count, which is suspicious, and the hand histories have slightly different formats, which is discussed. But I don't see a motive for it all being a hoax, and if so, it sure is an elaborate one. If they posters are just looking for attention, I'd imagine they'd make this claim about a larger site.

[Talking Poker]

Actually, here's how it (usually) works:
The SHUFFLE is random, but once the deck is set, it's set. It's then just a matter of revealing the predetermined order of cards to the players.

Some sites use burn cards, and others - including Poker Stars - do not (since there is no need to online, obviously).