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Have you ever played video poker? Try it for sheer excitement! Played online or on computerized consoles in casinos, it is pretty much like poker with winning hands like Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four-of-a- Kind and what have you! Players have an equal chance to win or lose. Many experts and professional video poker players have come up with strategies that claim to fetch a guaranteed win. These are invariably based on mathematical calculations that supposedly predict the outcome of the ‘draw.’

However it is a known fact that the hand that appears in a Poker game is random and cannot be related to the previous or the next hand. A randomness of a hand in video poker refers to the fact that there is an equal probability of any of the cards to be chosen when the ‘draw’; button is clicked. This “randomness” is decreed by law and online casinos have embraced a sophisticated random number generator (RNG) software to ensure true random selection and display of cards from a virtual deck.

The dilemma of Video Poker is whether the cards drawn are really a random occurrence or a randomness “controlled” through a manipulated RNG. Controversial as it sounds, such a thing is yet to be proved, but it does not stop many an unlucky player from suspecting the worst. Those who have suffered long spells of bad streaks have taken the trouble to record moves and outcomes, noted the winning combinations and matched patterns with probability theories. As the randomness of video poker hands remain random, the strategies vouched for by experts often go out the window and accusatory fingers are pointed.

Take for instance, Rob Singer, a professional and experienced Poker player, who played the game for nearly two decades before formulating his opinion based on empirical evidence and independent verification. In his study, he kept a track of the number of times he was dealt two pair, an open-end straight and four-to-a-flush, and recorded how many times he drew cards that completed a full house, a straight or a flush. After playing at least 30000 rounds, he concluded that hand outcomes were not as often as they should have been in a random machine. He is intent on proving that poker hands are not based on random outcomes but on ‘hot-and-cold-cycles’ in the machine Well, all the best to him, but me thinks one man’s randomness is another man’s losing streak and yet another’s winning streak!

As the debate continues, and as long as players are in a dilemma over the the randomness or certainty of the draw, interest in video poker will continue to grow.