This concept of randomness is sometimes difficult to fully comprehend especially when you bring in the concept of continuous reshuffling.
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When you play cards at home with friends or your children, do you try to make sure the deck is thoroughly shuffled before dealing? Maybe even allowing the deck to be cut. We even shuffle for the small children because they are not good at it yet. Why? To make sure the cards dealt are as random as they can get manually shuffling.
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You are at a nine player table and receive your two random pocket cards dealt to you from a Continuously Reshuffling software program. At that point 18 cards have been removed from the deck. You make a decision whether to play or not based on those two cards. There are 34 cards left in the deck at that time. Are those 34 cards random? Are the next 5 cards of those 34 cards random?
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Do you have any idea what order the 34 remaining cards are in? Do you have any idea what order the next five cards are? If they are random, why would it matter if I reshuffled them over and over again as long as they are random? Even though the order of the those 34 cards changes each time they are reshuffled, if they are still random, does it matter? How does reshuffling change randomness?
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Or do you think the order of the next 5 cards (flop, turn, & river) are somehow prearranged in an order that will guarantee that you will win and by reshuffling your chances of winning are decreased? Cards prearranged for you to win would not be random.
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Or do you somehow think reshuffling is messing with the laws of nature and that those 5 next cards were again predestined for you to win?
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Please show me mathematically how that is possible. The 34 cards remaining in the deck are random. If I reshuffle them 1 trillion times before I deal the flop, those 34 cards are still random but in a new random order. No one knows what cards will be dealt on the flop, turn and river in both situations, i.e. without reshuffle and with continuous reshuffle.
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That is the key, the next five cards that are dealt are as random as they are going to get.
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So how does reshuffling change anything? The next 5 cards dealt are all selected randomly and nobody knows what they will be.
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I know maybe the deck had been running cold for you and this time you would have hit had it not been for that damn continuous shuffling software or magic genie that lives in the software.
TexasThunder
All they have to do is have one shuffle, deal the 20 hole cards, then 5 cards face down in the middle, turning them as the hand progresses. The only reason for not doing this is greed, less hands per hr., less money for them.