Here's the thing that really bugs me about this. Even if there was some sort of discernable pattern and even if someone had figured it out and even if the casino didn't boot their ass quickly, it still wouldn't work because of latency!
Think about it this way:
Picture a butterfly that flits back and forth seemingly at random. You have a butterfly net. Every time you swing and catch the butterfly, you win a bit of money. Sounds great, except for that whole random flitting thing. You swing whenever you think its best. Sometimes you catch the butterfly. Sometimes you don't. Now along comes someone who has "completely decoded the psyche of the butterfly" and has mapped out the entire movement pattern of the butterfly. Sounds great! Now you always know which moves the butteryfly are going to make, and can swing accordingly.
The only problem is that the butterfly is making thousands of little flits a second. So even if you know when and where the butterfly will go-- you can't react that fast. And even if you could, there's factors beyond your control-- like the wind resistance of the net.
And that is exactly why an "internet pattern" system won't work. Even the most basic random number generator is usually based on the system clock, which is accurate down to milliseconds (or less). So even if you knew that "After dealing A(s) J(h) 5(d) 5(c), the next hand will be a blackjack"-- you couldn't react fast enough to catch that blackjack. And even if you could (say the pattern was "in 5.21 seconds, the hand will be a blackjack"), and had a robot program that would go after the hand-- you can't control the internet! There's latency between your computer and the casino server-- which is unknown and unpredicatable. And there's processing latency at the server between recieving your "deal again" command and actually generating the deal instance. So there's no way to know exactly when to send your "deal again" command in time to catch just the right millisecond that will deal the blackjack hand.
So even if a perfect pattern recognization program existed, that knew every hand that can be dealt and exactly when it would be, there is no way to accurately implement it over the internet.
Think about it this way:
Picture a butterfly that flits back and forth seemingly at random. You have a butterfly net. Every time you swing and catch the butterfly, you win a bit of money. Sounds great, except for that whole random flitting thing. You swing whenever you think its best. Sometimes you catch the butterfly. Sometimes you don't. Now along comes someone who has "completely decoded the psyche of the butterfly" and has mapped out the entire movement pattern of the butterfly. Sounds great! Now you always know which moves the butteryfly are going to make, and can swing accordingly.
The only problem is that the butterfly is making thousands of little flits a second. So even if you know when and where the butterfly will go-- you can't react that fast. And even if you could, there's factors beyond your control-- like the wind resistance of the net.
And that is exactly why an "internet pattern" system won't work. Even the most basic random number generator is usually based on the system clock, which is accurate down to milliseconds (or less). So even if you knew that "After dealing A(s) J(h) 5(d) 5(c), the next hand will be a blackjack"-- you couldn't react fast enough to catch that blackjack. And even if you could (say the pattern was "in 5.21 seconds, the hand will be a blackjack"), and had a robot program that would go after the hand-- you can't control the internet! There's latency between your computer and the casino server-- which is unknown and unpredicatable. And there's processing latency at the server between recieving your "deal again" command and actually generating the deal instance. So there's no way to know exactly when to send your "deal again" command in time to catch just the right millisecond that will deal the blackjack hand.
So even if a perfect pattern recognization program existed, that knew every hand that can be dealt and exactly when it would be, there is no way to accurately implement it over the internet.
Having dropped the RNG pretense, Cipher is now making the claim of every John Patrick style gambler. He sees "trends" that aren't there.
