John F. Thomas, Jr., Esq. wrote:
>My understanding of VP machines was that the RNG was continuously
>spinning thru the possible shuffles of cards, and when the deal
>button was pressed it stopped on the current shuffle.Can someone please tell me why people continue to think this is important?
It is not. As you correctly noted, it makes absolutely no difference at all, yet it keeps coming up. I was mostly commenting on the idea that someone might have beat the machines by using a computer to analyze the RNG -- which was alluded to by another poster. Initially, I thought like you did -- that they would need to have some huge BOOK that would contain all the hands in sequence. But then I thought that the better way would be to check a hand on each of several computers, and then go to the room and analyze them; assuming that it was true that the RNG was following a set sequence, even though very large, the player's computer would still reveal, for example, that vp machine number three is only 700 hands away from a Royal if you will through away two of your triple-Kings and hold the Kh and draw the other 4 hearts to complete a Royal. You would then run down to the machine, kick somebody out of the chair 
... and commence playing using ... pick-one [max-ER, min-cost, min-risk, or whatever you want] ... until you finally see your triple Kings come up. You would then casually turn to the beautiful blond next to you, show her your triple Kings, and then tell her -- "I feel lucky; I'm going to throw away three of a kind and go for the Royal". And then, if you really wanted to impress her, you could double-down 5 times in a row on the Royal, assuming that your computer program could also analyze the RNG outcome for that, too.
I find it all difficult to believe, but it was interesting to speculate.
Cheers.
Bill Velek