Gambler who kept winning could lose £650,000 jackpot

[PH lurker]

nick s said:

Saw this earlier. I hope that guy gets his money! Not his fault at all. How dare they try and not pay him!

+1.

[hairykrishna]

iphonedyou said:

You're less likely to experience cheating online than in real life. Primarily because very effective anti collusion systems are in place, which rely on a computer to detect collusion, rather than the dealer or other players. Additionally, the cards themselves have a perfect shuffle on every occasion, and the dealer isn't subject to making human errors.

Your last sentence really hits the nail on the head. Hundreds of millions of dealt hands every day online, and virtually no negative press concerning cheating.

He was stalking about 'cheating' in casino games not poker. Poker's a bit different.

[rxtx]

Carfiend said:

Well even if it was written to not be stacked in the houses favour it would still not be random as it is impossible to generate genuine random numbers on a serial computer (the type you are posting on PH with right now). You generate a sequence of numbers based off of an unknown seed value. If you know that value then you can predict the sequence.

Hardware RNGs are used that use various techniques to generate random seeds.