Continuous Shuffle - Online poker RNGs...

[ChipFish]

This is hands down the funniest thread EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MAYHEM45]

Yeah right up there with eejits blackjack system.

[drewjax]

I dont get all you morons who say this isnt a big deal. Of course it is. If this is all true, then.....

When I fold a pp or a suited ace to a donk raise, and the flop comes with what "would" have been a set or nut flush, I cant "justify" losing my bloody mind, ranting and raving, and "rightfully" thinking I am jinxed.

[ChipFish]

Since NOONE has control over the outcome. It doesn't matter.
Since everyone lacks the knowledge to "influence" the outcome, the outcome can NOT be influenced, so it is random.

So as I said before Funniest thread EVER!!!!

[Talking Poker]

It's ok that you don't understand what we are talking about here, Chip.

Really.

[GTDawg]

RD could've tripped and fallen trying to get back to the computer after his bathroom break and hit his head on the corner of his computer desk and killed himself.

You're going to have an aneurysm what if'ing yourself to death.

[Talking Poker]

Yes, that is all well and good.

The simple point here that very few people seem to be getting is that for the thousands of times that people in this forum have said/thought, "Oh, I would have made my flush" or "I would have flopped a set" AND just as many times that people have said, "Whew - good thing I folded, because I would have gone broke here" or not thought anything at all because the result was insignificant in their mind......... well, that's all crap. You can't do it, because there is no such thing as a fixed deck.

Yes, it's still random. And no, no one can influence the action any more than anyone else. But the fact remains that online poker sites (at least Full Tilt) us a continuous shuffle, and that changes how we look at the game.

[Reel Deal]

Listen to GT... anyone worrying about this is going to eventually book a one-way ticket to the nut house.

[Talking Poker]

Exactly.

And yes, I understand that it's still random and all that... but the point is, when people post hands , for example (the first one that comes to mind), it's actually meaningless. Had RD not taken a bathroom break there and raised preflop, maybe he would have gotten it all in on a completely different harmless looking flop of T55 nd maybe a Jack would have come on the river too, just for kicks. So MAYBE, his seemingly ill-timed bathroom break saved him from being eliminated from the tourney with the Kiss of Death.

The point is, we don't know, and knowing that a continuous shuffle exists, we can no longer - ever - speculate about what might have been had we played a particular hand differently.

If that doesn't bother you, great for you. But hopefully you can see how it could bother some people.

[PShabi]

Honestly,

I think it's the worst "serious" discussion ever on this board and I hope it dies off the front page after this post because if I was a newcomer and this was the first thread I saw here, I would never come back.

[Talking Poker]

Noted. I appreciate you relaying your concern here without the need for loads of smilies and font size 7.

That said, I don't understand how someone reading this thread would never want to come back to this site. We have many, many, many far more useless threads than this around here.

But I think I've pretty much said all I can say about this anyway, so I'll do my part in letting it die off. Some people get it, others don't. No biggie.

[GTDawg]

I think I found a way to appease the great Shabs...but I'm sure he already knows about the new Beastie Boys album coming out in a few months.

[PShabi]

Much appreciated Dawg, but I knew about that album before they did.