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Message: [QUOTE="sunirico, post: 2611917, member: 131055"] Isn't this what a cut card aims to prevent and I am sure there are instances where an independent dealer requests from players to cut a shuffled deck but I will have to research some references to prove. I always thought that if requesting to cut a deck it is commonly allowed. True that the cut is a part of the shuffle or arguably its conclusion but I don't think it is for randomization purposes. Wikipedia[1] gives a good description as the reason for cutting cards. Hah! It seems my reasoning for the lucky aspect of cutting was spot on. I am not sure how they test these RNGs but I do feel that there are a difference in the results produced by any RNG as compared to shuffling cards physically. Take for example a new ordered deck and split it in two parts. The one part will have 2 suites and the second will have 2 suites. Doing a riffle on these two parts and cutting the deck into two halves again, you should find a dispersion of 4 suites in each half. This is vastly different to producing a deck by randomly choosing one of 52 cards placed one top of each other. Would you agree? Besides, online poker took something which was natural and turned it very mechanical and I think there is room to bring more of the physical aspects into this virtual reality and I feel using shuffling techniques instead of a RNG will go a long way to facilitate this. But that's a topic for another thread all together. I know some casinos use continuous shuffling machines especially for blackjack but is this the case for poker? The thing is that it is not simply producing a randomly arranged deck, if that was the case it could be argued that you don't have to shuffle at all as the act of dealing already produces a mixture and players randomly fold so you can just use the discard pile and the unused cards as is again. But this is not acceptable in any live setting then why is it considered acceptable online? By allowing us to cut the deck online it will still the suspicions that the game is rigged IMO and facilitates something far more natural. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_%28cards%29 [/QUOTE]

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