January 16, 2010
Real Deal poker - Why???
Been reading about a new site http://www.realdealpoker.com
The gimick is they have a robot with a real deck of cards, shuffling the deck and reading it into memory with a video camera ready for use on a table.
In addition to that the player on the button gets an option to cut the cards, and they use burn cards.
Now my first thought is “why� What benefit does it offer to them or the players?
My second thought is – how many points of failure, security issues and just wasted energy does this system introduce?
Real Deal poker say every hand will be logged and any one will be able to request an independant audit on any hand (for a fee) and get access to the results within 24 hours.
They say the cut system will make it harder for bots to run on their systems. I’m not convinced myself.
I can’t understand why they would pursue this gimmick, I also can’t understand why anyone would give them enough money to get it off the ground.
Meanwhile back in the real wotld – I’ve had two straight flushes in three days which was interesting. I saw another player hit one last week, and the same week I folded a trash hand that would have completed the ace high straight flush had I held onto it.
I’m fully aware that this is not statistically remarkable, relevant or interesting.
But I do wonder if PokerStars need to shuffle those cards a bit better…
1 Comments:
veloblank posted on January 16, 2010 at 09:48 AM
haha, that's not hard at all for a card to get stuck in that machine for the next deck...The first time I see my quads cracked by running cards to make 5 of kind, i'm going ape shit
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