wolfie_cr said:
i would have guessed no for the reason you mentioned.
another reason for asking would be to figure your odds of hitting an out.
assuming all your cards are live , do you calculate using 49 cards available or 52 ? minus cards dealt ofcourse..
thats probably an ignorant question , but i'm a novice newbee...
World Number One said:
Hmm. You use all the cards that you have not seen, either in your hand, on the board or when the guy folding across the table flashed his hand.
The Boss software, which is used by Sportingbet and I believe Bowmans shows the burn cards. However since they are never revealed they could be fakes.
Burning cards have no statistical effect. Most software therefore will not burn cards unless they are simply trying to mimic the real life game to every detail.
Other differences which have no statistical effect is that casino/poker software may not deal from the top of the deck (I'm aware of at least one implementation that deals each card from a random position in the shuffled deck) -- and the cards may not be dealt in the same order as in real-life (e.g. dealing each player two cards instead of two rounds of one card each).
The animation of dealing cards is completely unrelated to the back-end implementation of dealing the cards to each player.
It is worthy to note that the notion that cards are not "dealt" or "shuffled", but are instead determined by a random number generation is bunk, a myth. Cards are indeed shuffled (using a shuffling algorithm, such as a multi-pass Knuth algorithm) and are indeed dealt (selected and removed) from that shuffled deck. These do involve random numbers heavily, but not in the sense that each card is generated by a PRNG as needed.
Other differences which have no statistical effect is that casino/poker software may not deal from the top of the deck (I'm aware of at least one implementation that deals each card from a random position in the shuffled deck) -- and the cards may not be dealt in the same order as in real-life (e.g. dealing each player two cards instead of two rounds of one card each).
The animation of dealing cards is completely unrelated to the back-end implementation of dealing the cards to each player.
It is worthy to note that the notion that cards are not "dealt" or "shuffled", but are instead determined by a random number generation is bunk, a myth. Cards are indeed shuffled (using a shuffling algorithm, such as a multi-pass Knuth algorithm) and are indeed dealt (selected and removed) from that shuffled deck. These do involve random numbers heavily, but not in the sense that each card is generated by a PRNG as needed.
I know of no site that reuses discarded cards..and i think ive played just about all of them. besides asking the way you can tell is if they go to a community card for the last card in 7 card stud if the deck has run out....that should be listed in their rules for 7 card....not to mention in thousands of games played ive never once saw a player type in."hey i just thru that card away"...as i think it likely they would if such a thing happened....discards are burned not put back into the deck.
