Rigged games?

[gwikley]

I have been playing 3 card at the Bovada for about 6 months now.  I have a good time.  Nothing heavy 25 or 50 every other day or so.  I also like to play the 3 card online just for the heck of it. Though it is the same game, the two sites, the free one and the real one are radically different.  The thing that I have noticed is that the Bovada table

results to the dealers hand have a regularity about them that is disturbing.   For instance if I receive an King, I can almost guarantee that the dealer will receive an Ace and win.  I thought I was just seeing things.  But the odds of this happening with such regularity seem to be astronomical.  Certainly, statisticians would say that over the course of a million hands the phenomena would come back to the calculated odds for the game.  And that is the only reason that I am not getting over the top paranoid about playing there.    But really......I would play 300, 400 hands and a full 90% of the time me receiving a King would predict an Ace for the dealer.  I played it to my advantage and did not raise on a King based hand, and felt a bit stupid doing so...but it paid off. 

 

I have no real complaints about this casino.  I have won 4-5 thousand and too about half that to get there.  They pay ontime and no hassle. 

 

Anyone else ever experience this particular three card phenomena at this casino? And, in general, does anyone think that a program could be written to not just deal the cards randomly, but to impose a subtle pattern that not only calculates the players move, but is so sophisticated that it can disquise itself in doing so?  I know this sounds a bit daft, but in this high tech enviornment, sucessful programing, writing code etc etc. is so far beyond sophisticated that it is almost surreal what can be done.

 

Anyway, great finding this forum.  Best of luck to all.

 

Gwik.

[ValDes]

Hello Gwik and welcome to the AskGamblers forum.

 

What I could suggest in this situation is to request your complete game log and ask an expert to go through it and check it for irregularities. However, you said you actually won there.. Forgive me if I am wrong, but how it is even possible to win anything from a rigged casino software?

[gwikley]

LOL....good point.  How WOULD one win ANYTHING against a rigged program!

 

Probably not likely.

 

However. As I described above, what if it was only "slightly" rigged? Meaning, just tweaked enough to increase the house favor by say, 5% or so.   Being able to know, before hand, what BOTH hands will be delt, would only take a mini-micro second, an eternity in processor time. In that space the "adjustment" is made to the dealers hand.  Viola, I lose on what would, statistically be a safe hand.      

 

But I'm beating a dead horse.  Not need to keep pondering this. I'll just assume that I am wrong.   I appreciate your time in responding.

 

Good luck out there.

 

Gwik. .

[valentin68]

Yes, 3 cards is a good game. I also won a few times from playing it. But if you have the slightest thought that the game is rigged why don't you go somewhere else? All MG casinos have good "3 cards" game and they count it towards wagering with 25% or even 50%.