So I was playing poker last night when I found this (COOL SHIT+PIC)
 

This is old school, from 99, but very awesome nonetheless.

Most of the first online poker places used software by a now dead (seems)
company, ASF Software Inc.

this company, felt soooo confident in their card shuffling algorithm that
they made it available online, so people can see how great it is.

well, a company that is suppose to look into shit cracked the algorithm
and made a program that not only calculcates what YOUR and YOUR OPPONENTS
cards are, but what the flop, turn and river are.

here is the kicker, instead of beating the shit out of people with this trick
they just called up the company and told em to fix it.

nonetheless. it did work:

Actual Poker Table:
http://www.cigital.com/news/images/crop1.gif

After Program predicted everyones cards + flop+turn+river
http://www.cigital.com/news/images/crop2.gif

for any programmer, the way it worked is simple. the randomizer uses
a seed, their seed was the amount of milliseconds since midnight. so, all you
have to do is synch your PC with whatever time zone they're in and you're
set.

full article:
http://www.cigital.com/news/index.php?pg=art&artid=20

pretty fucking cool eh?

interesting to say the least.

nice, too bad I didn't know that before.

nice ! hahaha

ohhhhhhhhh... NOW I find out :disgust

damn that would of been good to know before, could make a shitload.