Originally Posted by
agharah1
Unlike in a real casino, where there are physically unpredictable events like a ball rolling on a moving roulette wheel or a set of cards dealt from a deck shuffled by hand, online casinos are driven by computers. Computers have no concept of random numbers, because computers are not designed to think in unpredictable ways. Therefore, in order to create the appearance of randomness, complex mathematical algorithms are programmed in software to spit out a stream of what are called pseudorandom numbers. Usually these algorithms start with a seed number, like the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight, and run an iterative calculation to create a number that is then parsed into bins representing either a number 0-38 for a roulette wheel, 1-6 for craps dice, or 1-52 for a deck of cards.
That all being said, stop complaining about the casino. I've lost a ton of both money and betpoints before on roulette wheels that had an unholy long streak of black numbers, red numbers, even numbers, odd numbers, big numbers, small numbers, numbers in a single street, several 0/00 in a row, whatever. I've lost over 10 blackjack hands in a row on more than one occasion. It is impossible to tell if its rigged because you can't really play enough hands to check for a uniform probability distribution before you encounter a Gambler's Ruin scenario. All I know is none of what I encountered online is any more or less likely than in a real life casino. 1-2-3-4-5 can be just as much a random sequence of numbers as 37-22-108-954-3.14159
You lost a game you knew the odds were stacked against you. You weren't robbed, you weren't suckered, you played and you lost. End of story.