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[QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1557068, member: 40397"]
PokerStars uses a static shuffle, just about everyone else uses a continuous shuffle.

BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER.  It does NOT make online a completely different game than live (although other factors do, this isn't one of them).  The only practical difference is with a constant shuffle, you can't rabbit hunt.  Big deal.  The funny thing about that is that some online sites have started offering rabbit hunting, while their shuffle is constant, so I don't know how the heck they think that's going to work unless they use a separate RNG for those.

Regardless, you never know what's coming next, so a single shuffle vs a million shuffles per second should make no difference to you. As far as you're concerned, the next card out of the deck is [B]random[/B]. That's all you care about. A continuous shuffle is even more random than a set deck, and ultimately that's what you want in an online deal -- as close to total randomization as possible.

Only the rabbit hunters and the people who like to dream/whine about the hand they "would have had" if they didn't fold are going to be affected by a constant shuffle.  Which is a terrible results-oriented habit to get into.
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