First off you havent answered any of my questions.
I am undecided on 9/11 although for sure they blew up building 7, anyway irelevant
It is foolish and ignorant to think we are the only life out there , I am not saying I believe in those boggus photos/videos (UFOs)
There are a lot of shallow reasons given as to why on-line poker couldn't possibly be rigged. Your two seem to be:
It wouldn't be worthwhile for any site to manipulate the outcomes - This is totally false. All sites have enormous financial incentive to equalise the field of players which has the effect of increasing rake and extending the life-span of the lesser skilled players. the second reason is that you see far more hands than you would in live play. This is true but the ratio of good hands holding up should remain the same regardless of the number played or seen in a given time. The stats should still add up regardless of numbers.
Proving that outcomes are manipulated is almost impossible because the manipulation is part of the poker software design and is approved by the overseeing bodies who 'regulate' the poker rooms. I'll try to explain how this comes about
Most people believe that the RNG is infallible and produces random cards in a split second from 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,404,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible combinations. As I understand it this isn't possible because even a 128-bit system(most sites run a 64 bit system) which can handle 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000 combinations is still only capable of handling .0000000000001% of all possible deck sequences. A software code has to included to compensate for the shortfall. The problem with this scenario is that skilled players would dominate the game (this was the case in the early days of on-line poker) because the RNG cannot produce sufficient hands. To overcome this shortfall the second generation of RNG's used a constant shuffle technique which did not predetermine the deck. This soon became undesirable as the outcome was less than equitable since one person could theoretically win pot after pot regardless of their starting hands. One site that used this was pokerroom.com (now closed). This technique also did not produce enough random hands and was considered unfair to all players. The present generation software used in online poker today has far more sophistication in seeding the random number using white noise generators to produce a larger variety of hands and it has a mathmatical function known as 'Equitable Distribution' added. This new technique was brought in order to produce fair outcomes for all players. Multiple subroutines and sub-programs are written into the online poker software in an attempt to produce a ‘fair’ game within the limitations of the RNG's ability.
This all a bit difficult to get one's head round I know, but as I understand it, all players are given a fair game based on predetermined outcomes from a pseudo-random RNG. That doesn't mean it's random and depending on your interpretation of the word fair, it doesn't necessarily mean it's 'fair' .... just 'fair to all.'
And 'fair to all' makes very good business sense to a poker room by extending the playing life of the lesser skilled players, maximising the circulation of monies and thereby increasing the rake.
