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Table Balancing Works! - Or rather doesn't
While i respect this is supposed to be random, some common sense needs to be applied to table balancing with chips. Final 10 of an mtt, and attached is a picture of the largest and smallest stacks.
This situation creates and awful dynamic in a tournament, on both tables.
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You cannot ever interfere with "random" when Table Balancing Don, you must know that from your TD days. It is what it is, some win, some lose.
Once you start "interfering" with random table balancing, it is a slippery slope. Imagine what the conspiracy theorists would say, too.....
Poker, in the short term, is often "unfair". It just is. But it cuts both ways, never forget that.
Random is random, & has to be exactly that.
Sometimes poker seems unfair, but it cuts both ways.
Good grief at the mere thought of messing with random table balancing. Once you start where do you stop?
It's like saying K-K into A-A is unfair, let's change things so that never happens.
It's poker, & exactly the same Live & Online.
I'm astonished you want to interfere with the natural order of things.
You do know that, right?
It is random.
Fold a A4 sheet of paper 4 to 5 times
Stick it under one leg
Give it a test, adjust if needed with another piece of paper on opposite leg.
BOOM, table is now balanced no need for randomness
Tommy D posted a really good explanation of why it would work out like this. It made total sense even to a non Mathematician like me.
I drive home straight after the UKPC, which took 3 hours, & this thread kept niggling way in my mind, & I could not fathom why, but then the penny dropped.
How long has this Forum been going? 7 & a half years? Call it 2,500 days.
On average, I'd say, once a day someone posts on here "Sky poker is fixed, they rig the software" sorta thing.
A few weeks ago there was a new variation - an accusation of manual RNG intervention. (!)
I had this vision of a small army of little chaps up in Head Office, monitoring all the Tables to make sure the "right" guys won or lost.
But this thread broke new ground - suggesting Sky Poker SHOULD rig the software!
Every day, something different, something new. Truly breathtaking stuff.
Not having a dig Don, honest, I just look at things in an obverse way sometimes to try & make sense of them, & this thread really piqued my interest. In this case, it was "OK, lets think through what was suggested, & see where it takes me".
As you were, carry on.
Several computational methods for random number generation exist. Many fall short of the goal of true randomness — though they may meet, with varying success, some of the statistical tests for randomness intended to measure how unpredictable their results are (that is, to what degree their patterns are discernible). However, carefully designed cryptographically secure computationally based methods of generating random numbers do exist, such as those based on the Yarrow algorithm and the Fortuna (PRNG) and others.
So, is the table balancing done by 'true randomness? You maybe on to something here Don
Don't worry Don, it's nowhere near as bad as this Legends maiden post.
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3a9e717f00-4dc8-48a6-96ee-b11424cbec2a
We've all been there & done that Don. It did tickle me though.
I think these things SHOULD be discussed, if only to discount them.
I personally am always whining about my table dynamics and the fact I am never happy with whoever I get
im on the 2p tables