To be honest... The firm appearance of rigtards is another rite of passage for seals.
Cannot agree with this enough -- this just helps to confirm that Seals is coming into the big-time. The irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife.The shuffling algorithm is public and generally accepted to be the most fair way to pseudorandomly shuffle a virtual deck of cards. It's the same algorithm used by all trusted poker sites.
"Provably fair" is a term being used to mean that the entire shuffle can be reproduced with a seed that can be publicly known or reproduced and independently verified. The seed of each shuffle is currently neither reproducible or public.
SealsWithClubs would probably do themselves a service to publicly post the link to Poker Maven's description of its RNG / hand-shuffling algorithm on their site's FAQ page: http://www.briggsoft.com/docs/pmavens/Utilities.htm#shuffle I must have linked to that half a dozen times already."Provably fair" is a term being used to mean that the entire shuffle can be reproduced with a seed that can be publicly known or reproduced and independently verified. The seed of each shuffle is currently neither reproducible or public.
Micon, do you know if you guys have any plans in the (admittedly far off) future of changing the software over to cryptographically provably fair shuffling algs?
I don't know if this could be done -- they use Poker Mavens on the server side, which is closed-source. Maybe SwC could somehow have the server write the seeds used for a hand to the hand history, after it is played? That seems like it's asking for trouble though, if someone managed to get into their server and intercept the hand seed output before a hand has finished.I appreciate all of these thoughts and understand many of our players are thinking deeply about our system.
While I cannot say too much at this stage, I feel it is important to note that SwC is already *heavily* modified from plain downloadable Mavens software. We are continuously making server-side improvements and working closely with all software providers.
IMO exciting things will continuously happen to SwC in 2013, stay tuned.
