Quote from: melinoe on July 10, 2025, 06:56:23 AM

Quote from: basepoker on June 04, 2025, 12:58:42 PM

Quote from: vladi88 on June 03, 2025, 06:13:22 AM

I am not a poker guru, to put it mildly, and I do not have much experience in different games and especially on different platforms, and perhaps my assessment of the game on this platform will be too subjective, but, in my opinion, as far as hands and their expected probability are concerned, it is more like a casino than poker. When, say, your "AK" beats "A4" with a four (4) on the "river" in more than half of the cases, it is very difficult to play in terms of game management and game strategy. In my opinion, it is just a game of luck, not skill, etc. Although I won a tournament once and got into the "prizes" several more times, having played about 20 tournaments (not freerolls) in total. It would be interesting to know how the random number generator works there.

Hey! You can read about our randomness here!

https://medium.com/@basepoker/a-new-approach-to-online-poker-randomness-fed44ad905ca
https://medium.com/@basepoker/understanding-randomness-part-1-overview-d00b43ac8f4c
https://medium.com/@basepoker/understanding-randomness-part-2-daily-seeed-d52ba6e7903f
https://medium.com/@basepoker/understanding-randomness-part-3-player-seed-eef65628c8c9
https://medium.com/@basepoker/understanding-randomness-part-4-shuffle-card-distribution-7e1bfef355ca

Again, asking about the privacy - so the seeds of the players are not shown from the get-go because everybody would analyze what they do in that case, or why? (regarding the consensus they need to give in order to check how it's truly random).

Poker players have 3 choices in the market:

1. Blindly trust the platform (most poker sites)
2. Every data is transparently shown and verify all hands -> This leads to a serious hand privacy issue. Every player's hand history is revealed and analyzed.
3. Hands can be verified "consensually" -> this is our approach.

Of course, it'd be difficult to ask a random dude on the internet to consensually verify. So you can create your own table on Basepoker, invite friends to test the randomness and its fairness yourself. The fact that you CAN verify is a huge improvement over blindly trusting the site and revealing every hands to the public.

After verifying the hands, players can edit their player seed at will. So no one can continue to see the hands.