Cutting the deck is not the step that produces the game result when dealing with physical cards. The provably fair algorithms present you, the player, with the opportunity to “cut the deck”, so you can be sure any future games using that seed pair will be random. In a previous article, I gave a very simple explanation of what provably fair is and why it’s important. This is always the very first step in a process that can have infinite steps afterwards. The verification process used by most sites goes only as far as proving that the casino did not change the server seed after you placed your bet. The more complicated the game’s rules are, the more complicated the process is to get that game’s results. Some are very simple, with only a few steps, while others are required to convert the provably fair hash string to perform very long and complicated math functions. The provably fair algorithm is only one part of the process used to generate the game results you see on your screen. How can a game pass fairness verification if it’s not fair? In that case, it’s highly unlikely that any casino would risk using shady code because anyone could prove it at any time. But suppose the Random Number Generator (RNG) is open source.
