NigawG is the GREATEST'

[mulhuzz]

Tal, think the point is that whilst the rest of us are ordering jägerbombs and high fiving the dealer, here hero almost made a huge fold and was still thinking about the hand and villain rather than going 'lol top top call you'

At least that's what I got from it. Shame there was no justice K on river.

[PathFinder]

Shame there was no justice K on river.

Ironically due to the Pokerstars constant shuffle, if he snapped call the river was a K

[dakky]

Shame there was no justice K on river.

Ironically due to the Pokerstars constant shuffle, if he snapped call the river was a K

Actually Stars is on a fixed shuffle, whereas I believe FTP is continuous

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PokerStars Michael J 
Head of PokerStars PR
    
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Isle of Man
Posts: 559
Re: The pokerstars shuffle...

The deck is shuffled, and then dealt. The deck is set prior to the shuffle commencing: once it is set, it doesn't change (unless you're playing in a game like Triple Draw where the deck needs to be reshuffled since the game runs out of cards, obviously).

Ironically, the PokerStars shuffle is actually "more" random than a live shuffle. This is because a standard casino hand shuffle is only likely to have 3-4 riffle shuffles, which is insufficient to truly randomise the deck.

If you're interested in the research behind this, you can read it online at http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?servi...oap/1177005705

A summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling makes the point that for a 52-card deck, you need at least seven good riffle shuffles.

By contrast, the PokerStars shuffle does truly randomise each and every card, and you can read a summary of that at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/room/features/security/

Most importantly, we use two sets of 249 random bits from external sources (user input and thermal noise) to ensure that we *never* use a seed number or other pseudo-random process. Consequently, while we use a formula to convert the random bits into cards, since the bits are random to begin with, the outcome is truly random."

[mondatoo]

So live poker is rigged then!

[mulhuzz]

So live poker is rigged then!

yes.

[EvilPie]

we i must be reading or seeing something different.

i mean i was speechless for at least 5 minutes. wow.

Chris. In future would it be possible for you to always dwell before you call. Hopefully we can bank enough 5 minutes to get a full day at some point.

[PathFinder]

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[Tal]

Tal, think the point is that whilst the rest of us are ordering jägerbombs and high fiving the dealer, here hero almost made a huge fold and was still thinking about the hand and villain rather than going 'lol top top call you'

At least that's what I got from it. Shame there was no justice K on river.

I'm going to agree with you purely for the umlaut.

#stackitoffquietlyyouledge

[pleno1]

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incredible

[AndrewT]

Evilpie + Pathfinder = manyrofls

[The Camel]

best ever thread on PHA

could only be improved if Mantis gave his opinion.

[MANTIS01]

What happened here is NigDawG was on the phone to one of his buddies organising the next sweat session. Then that alarm went off when it's your go and NigDawG went oh shit and snap called.

When ur never folding it's pointless spending one second not calling. Them wasted life seconds gonna add up in the end.

[The Camel]

What happened here is NigDawG was on the phone to one of his buddies organising the next sweat session. Then that alarm went off when it's your go and NigDawG went oh shit and snap called.

When ur never folding it's pointless spending one second not calling. Them wasted life seconds gonna add up in the end.

This might be true live, because if you call and get knocked out you can go and do something.

If you are playing 30 tables online it's not quite so true.

[Tal]

What happened here is NigDawG was on the phone to one of his buddies organising the next sweat session. Then that alarm went off when it's your go and NigDawG went oh shit and snap called.

When ur never folding it's pointless spending one second not calling. Them wasted life seconds gonna add up in the end.

This might be true live, because if you call and get knocked out you can go and do something.

If you are playing 30 tables online it's not quite so true.

Camel! You can't summon someone and then dismiss them!

[MANTIS01]

playing 30 tables is prob the reason for the dwell as it goes