It does function just like a card game.
All that is false is that it appears like you can choose any of the next four cards in the deck, whereas you always get the next card in the deck.
They appear to have cut a corner in order to speed the game up. I guess they figured since it makes no difference which card you select, they may as well choose the card for you and have a
VP double that runs faster than the competition. It's still a random card from a shuffled deck, so you will still win 50% of the time, so what does it matter?
I agree it was probably a stupid decision - they know how superstitious and suspicious gamblers are (casinos make a lot of money because of that), so they should have realised that if anyone ever noticed people would jump to illogical conclusions. None of their comptetitors cut that corner and are all doing fine, so it was an unnecessary step.
But it is not a cheat, and nothing like the other '
VP is rigged' stories we have seen recently.