At 01:49 PM 11/26/1997 -0500, Sal Denaro wrote:

If you can't see the tables, how do you know the games aren't rigged?

There's a lot of cryptography work addressing this problem, with variants like "Mental poker". You can do things like have the participants each - pick a random number, - share the hash of their numbers with each other, - then share the random numbers with the casino - then XOR everybody's random numbers together to feed the casino's card shuffler - play the game, lose the money - casino reveals its random number - everybody compares hashes to verify that it was honest

And do they offer Wayne Newton over streaming Video? I'm sure that can be arranged :-) What about free drinks? By Fedex.

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