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Online Poker Shuffling Algorithm.

September 6th, 2007

Online poker shuffling can be quirky at best for some sites. Many of the larger more respecatble site have set up protocols in their code and software to ensure a random shuffle. Supposedly only nature can produce perfect randomness, but with todays technology who knows. I even here the next generation A.I. (artificial intelligence) will be smarter and faster than the human mind. That generation is only a year or two away to practical implemtation. It’s a scary world. I have always wondered because I have played on some sites where I have seen four of a kind come up in Hold’em three times in less than a two hour session at one table.

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3 Responses to “Online Poker Shuffling Algorithm.”

David, on December 29th, 2007 at 1:43 pm Said:

BAD BEATS - YES or No

I always wondered if those random number generators at online casinos were random at all!

We all know that someone has to win the hand, but, c’mon, how often have you seen some unbelievable hands, just happen to win.
While that player should have never been in the hand with all the betting and raising. What’s with these Random Generators?
With 19,600 possible 3 card flops and 75% of your hand completed after the flop, is someone watching the games?
Or is there a “BOT” (robot) watching and delegating what comes out next?

Although, with 19,600 possible 3 card flop combo’s, how could you have a Bad Beat?
Why is that? Maybe someone out there has an answer? Email your thoughts.

Hey remember, even though you believe a player shouldn’t have been in a hand and played those cards, “shit happens” and any 2 cards can win, RIGHT?
William, on April 20th, 2008 at 4:33 am Said:

Online poker rooms use the Mersenne Twister random number generator. It’s actually produces pseudorandom numbers. Numbers that appear to be random, but are not.
Poker Buddy, on July 29th, 2008 at 7:39 am Said:

I have played with a random number generator Shuffle cards.
I am a software developer, and I just wanted to see if i could do it…

What I did was as follows:

1. Assign each card in the deck a number from 1 to 52.
2. Generate a random number from 1 to 52.
3. Set the first number in position 1. Carry on generating random numbers from 1 to 52. I check each number to see if it has been used. If it has, I re-generate.
4. Once I have 52 unique numbers is a position from 1 to 52, I have a shuffled deck of cards.

I have always wondered if this is how the big boys do it.