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Video Poker Dealer In The Machine
Sitting inside every video-poker or video-blackjack machine is a dealer. Just as in any card game played in a casino, the dealer shuffles the cards, deals the cards, collects the discards and determines who gets paid when the hand is completed. The dealer is (or should be) uninterested in who wins or loses, as his job is only to shuffle and deal and collect those cards—and keep the game moving.
However, the dealer-in-the-machine is of a very special and particular kind that sets him far apart from his human counterpart in the casino poker rooms. The dealer-in-the-machine never gets tired. Also, he rarely makes a mistake. When he senses that he isn't up to par, he can shut himself down and signal for help. That's because the dealer-in-the-machine is a microchip that has been programmed to select a series of random numbers. These numbers correspond to the various cards being used and the sequences of numbers will correspond to various hands that will be dealt. In games that are not rigged, the cards will be shuffled at random and dealt as they come off the top of the deck. Thus, the first number sequence will be the first card, the second number sequence will be the second card and so forth. Just as a human dealer would do. In theory and sans cheating, each card will have the same chance of coming up as every other card in the deck or as every other card in the remaining portion of the deck.
Another interesting difference between a human dealer and the dealer-in-the-machine is the fact that the dealer-in-the-machine is constantly selecting number sequences—even when the machine isn't being played! In this frenetic solitaire, the dealer-in-the-machine is selecting, arranging, and discarding, selecting, arranging, and discarding numbers upon numbers, sequences upon sequences, cards after cards, hands after hands, as he waits for some player to ante up.
Once the player antes up—that is, puts his coins in the machine—the dealer-in-the-machine signals the video-display portion of the device that thus and such cards will come up in this and that order. And the game is on. The player will now make his choices of keeping or drawing some cards, all cards or no cards. The player does this by pushing the DEAL-DRAW button on the console.
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