Is Online Roulette Completely Fair? [article from Articleranks]

Is Online Roulette Completely Fair?

It's actually not very simple for a computer - the creation of a truly random rumber. It's an important point to remember as many of the things that computers do for us require that. For example fruit machines or online roulette all need random numbers to make them fair. It's a big issue for those of us who don't live near a proper casino and want to play roulette online instead.

Which is where the problem lies, a computer needs a set of instructions to be random which is obviously pretty hard to provide. The computer processes the instructions, which are written by a programmer who determines how it should act. Think of how hard it is to produce these instructions to be completely random. In reality all they can produce is Pseudo-random numbers which to be fair are very difficult to predict.

There is another difficulty in that we are also hopeless at being random. We tend to want 50/50 chances to happen 50% of the time which is actually not going to happen that often surprisingly enough. Real random sequences can actually look very strange, with long, improbable sequences commonplace. It will come as no surprise to anyone who has watched spins on roulette wheels, where long sequences are common. Our neat, balance perception of what 'random' should look like usually ends up in the code of the computer programs.

In online gambling though, the problem goes even deeper - the perception of a player is equally as important. If we get an unlucky spin of a wheel or reel on an online game we get suspicious of the computer. If it happened on a real roulette wheel in a casino we'd probably mark it down to being unlucky.

For me this perception that everything is a series of code spoils the fun too much. I can't enjoy computerised gambling as it doesn't feel like lady luck is given a free reign. It probably explains the huge surge in the advent of live streaming casino games instead of computer systems too. I guess people would just prefer to risk their money on live roulette rather than a computer simulation of one.

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