Quote Originally Posted by klinkman View Post
Ummmm....no! The seed value used to generate each individual card (a new seed is used for every card) is not based on the first card generated, or has anything to do with it, but taken from a seprate hardware random number generator that generates a sequence of 1's and 0's based on non-determinisitc input, usually shot noise. The most important part is that the input is non-detrministic, that is it cannont be determined or predicted by a human. That is key. Early poker programs used Psuedo-RNGs that based the random numbers off of the system clock, which can both be manipulated and can be determined. As long as that input is non-deterministic the output will be as well. And remeber that new seed is also generated for each individual card-this means 2 things. 1. Previous cards delt only affect future cards dealt in that the card cannot be dealt again, so if a 7 was dealt and folded, it won't be dealt again. 2. There is no knowlege of the card that's going to be dealt until it's dealt-not even a person with inside access could tell you what the flop is going to be until it's dealt, as it's not generated until it's actually dealt.
Well, um ya all that deep tech stuff makes sense, but then why does it get stuck on some hands that are obviously winning way more than they should be,consistently, before moving on to a new batch of hands that seem to never lose?