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Originally Posted by happygobrokey
i don't play VP, does the player ever match the dealer?? i'm guessing not. |
The cards will tie at times, as a full deck of cards is used. As people have mentioned, this does seem a bit strange but the choice of which card to choose is of no bearing really. The casino should still pick the cards in the same way with the normal RNG. The computer effectively just picks the next card instead and it is just as good as any choice the player would make. There is no difference at all to the odds and it was probably done so that it requires less contact with the server.
Both methods are arguably the same because the cards the player can choose are totally unknown and not sent by the server at all before the choice is made, as it would be easily hackable. Even for other casinos, how do you know that the server doesn't create the random cards after the player chooses? In other words, the player might not really be choosing existing cards at all. It shouldn't make any difference how it's done as long as the odds are the same as normal.
It is a bit worrying, though, because this kind of predetermining can make it easier for the casinos to cheat if they were inclined to do so. I mean the casinos could easily make the cards totally random, but not pick the player's card randomly. It would be harder to detect and easier to rig than if the players actually had a real choice and the cards were non-random.