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Having your online poker hands generated by a computer program could become a thing of the past with the launch of a new poker site.

Up until now, online poker hands have all been created and dealt by a computer program known as a random number generator, or RNG. In card games such as poker this would result in a fair and reliable means of generating virtual card decks and dealing fair hands to players. But players have voiced reservations about this method, often citing the fact that it can cause games to feel cold and clinical. But all that is about to change with the imminent launch of a very new kind of online poker room, scheduled for its grand opening next month.

RealDealPoker.com is a new and very innovative online poker site. Not only will it be making full use of the most up to the minute graphics and game play software, it will not be using a RNG to deal the cards. In place of the RNG will be a patented system known as Cut N' Shuffle which was developed by the site's owners, Gioia International, Ltd.

A physical machine is used to shuffle a real deck of cards that is in turn used to create digital and video output. The digital result of each shuffle is translated into a secure data file, which is used for each individual poker hand played on the site. To add to the realism of this system, for each hand the player holding the dealer button can chose where the digital deck is cut to determine where in the deck the deal will begin. For the verification of the accuracy of each digital shuffle, the video recording is available for auditors to inspect.

What this means in terms of playability and realism is that poker players will, to all intents and purposes, be playing with real cards shuffled, cut and dealt from a real deck.

As a way of generating some good press and to demonstrate the faith in their system, RealDealPoker.com will offer its players a 100:1 full guarantee. They will make provision for any player to request an audit independently on any hand they are not happy with for which they will charge a small fee. If anything irregular is discovered, all players in that hand will be completely refunded, while the player requesting the audit will receive a credit for 100 time the audit's cost.

The website is active, but players will have to wait for the launch at the end of March to get some of the action and to see for themselves how well this system operates.