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Originally Posted by SneakyCastro  There has to be cheaters out there. I know there has to be someway to hack the RNG if you play enough hands. I believe those RNG snchronizing programs work, the theory behind it makes sense to me. It is scary thinking about it and im sure it exists(cheating). Thats why I like playing the private tours as there is honest players, not cheats! |
For the benefit of newcomers, let me repeat this. The RNG is not the point one would hack into a poker program. The standard software method of simulating any card game to construct the equivalent of a deck which you then subject to random shuffling. Once the shuffling is done, the deck order is fixed, just as with a real deck. All that is then needed is access to the deck to view the cards. It is the software equivalent of a marked deck.
Similarly, seeing others cards is totally un-necessary as you see the cards before they are dealt so you already know where they are going.
So, the RNG has been audited by independent auditors and is uncrackable. So what? That is not the weak link. No hacker would ever touch it.
No bent poker site would do that either as it is far simpler to take the shuffled deck and when a particular card is needed, provided it is not already played, deal it out of sequence. Think of it as dealing seconds or thirds but from any position (seconds = second card down, ask any card manipulator/magician/whatever).
Even if the poker software does it the hard way and generates each card one at a time rather than simulating a real shufled deck, all you need is access to the point in the software where the information is held for hand evaluation at the showdown. You simply look at information which is already known to the software. Again, there is no need to mess around with the RNG. Again no audit of the RNG will ever find this, simply because you are operating after the RNG has been used.
The latter scenario is marginally more secure because the hacker only sees the dealt cards and not the whole deck and so cannot predict the next card(s).
Of course getting access and masking the existence of that access from auditors is a whole different ball game. But if you can manage that, then the above is what you do.
And no, I've never done it, but having created card game simulations, having seen other examples in the standard software text books, it is obvious to me where the weak points are.
