Are the cards rigged?

[Busdriver]

I played for about an hour and it seemed that the game forces high betting combos, is it truly random or is there a system in place?

[LuckyVR]

Cards are random no system in place at all.

[794]

That actually comes as a surprise, the game seems to very heavily lean towards straights and flushes much more frequently than myself and my friends are used to seeing in real world scenarios. To the point it's almost more rare to see flops/rivers that don't favour those hands.

[Busdriver]

Thank you for the response.

[taxevader5000]

Originally posted by 794:

That actually comes as a surprise, the game seems to very heavily lean towards straights and flushes much more frequently than myself and my friends are used to seeing in real world scenarios. To the point it's almost more rare to see flops/rivers that don't favour those hands.

That's common in any online poker as you're playing more hands per hour so there's less time between getting good hands

[Spinxo.R]

You just have to adjust your playing style to suit the game algorithm. Go all in with something like 7,2 off suit where you can catch on the flop, then the runner, runner. Those seems to be the high winning percentage hands.

[Rich G]

Assuming there were no seating changes, no sit in/outs during those 4 hands, the odds of that happening are 1 in 2652 to receive the same hole cards once, 1 in 7mil to receive them a second time, 1 in 18 trillion a third, 1 in 49 quadrillion a fourth time. Those odds are for receiving them in the exact same order.....

HOWEVER, those are also the odds of receiving any other predicted hand ..eg, the same odds to get say.....AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs in that order. or 22,33,44,55 in a row....

What i'm saying is just because you found an unlikely pattern occur does not mean that randomness is not in use. There are 10^60 ways to shuffle a deck...and I'm willing to bet my stake that while your hole cards were the same, the whole hand (other's cards, the flop, etc) were not.

Lots and lots of hands get dealt in online poker...(devs can tell us how many, maybe) - weird stuff will happen, and this time, it happened to YOU...Consider yourself lucky - go buy a lottery ticket!

[Rich G]

Hrm, slight miscalc - it's much easier/likely to get AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs or 22,33,44,55 if you don't guess the exact suits....

[HawgDawg4life]

The real question regarding randomization is this, does the game actually shuffle the deck and work off of it or does it randomly select from a pool of unused cards to draw the next one. Imagine that you are playing a game of poker and the dealer shuffles the deck every time he pulls a card off the top. Or better yet, every time he pulls a card off the top he puts the remaining cards back in order then shuffles the deck. Randomization in the real world starts with a deck of cards that are not in order to begin with then shuffled, increasing their randomness.

[MLG Milk 2: The Return]

I could see Why people would think this with random cards many times someone will get 3 of a kind just for those same cards to show up again in the next hand, i think there should be actual decks that get cycled maybe even a player dealer in private modes.

[JoeWarhost]

Dogs go "woof", cats go "meow", online poker players go "the RNG is rigged".

It's really not hard to source a truly random RNG, there are a number of inexpensive vetted systems available. The algorithm for generating and dealing a poker hand from a 52 card deck has been standardized for decades. PokerStars wouldn't have lasted this long as a global contender for online gambling if their statistics were off from a live game. There's no undercover plants at a table getting handed all of the nut draws so the house can take a secret rake of a player's Monopoly money.

[ericquig]

I quit playing because I too think the game is rigged. The last time I played I repeatedly got the same exact hole cards 5 times within 10 minutes of playing.

[TGKLightning]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkHzOUzDjc&t=27s