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[QUOTE="starfall, post: 396013, member: 7551"]
With regards doing a random shuffle, the standard random number generators which you get in standard development libraries like VB are very flawed, and nowhere near good enough for this kind of job. However, there are reasonable RNGs, and also some random number generators that are far more random than any card shuffler would manage with a real deck of cards - especially ones which use numbers generated from using atomic decay or other highly random sources as a seed value.
Some sites do not produce proof of the randomness of their cards - no independent auditors reports for public consumption, but while some sites do not verify their randomness, that doesn't mean that genuine random number generation is not possible. Additionally, over a long enough period of time, 'unlikely' occurrences are statistically likely to happen at some point - the longer you've played the more likely you are to see one of these unlikely events.
One common misconception is that if it were truly random that a very unlikely event would not happen twice close together... if it is truly random, then if you take a sample of, say 100,000 hands and expect the event to happen twice, you'd look at those hands and expect to see around 2 occurrences, but you wouldn't expect them to be 50,000 hands apart - they're equally likely to have happened exactly 1 hand apart as 50,000 hands apart.
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