[hitpointdrew]

> Poker meets all the technical requirements here, but sending everyone the contents of all hands would be a disaster

I work in the gambling space. A few notes, gambling games don’t ever rely on physics (even roulette, or a coin dozer type of game, everything is decided by a certified rng, no regulatory body that I am aware of allows outcomes based on physics engines). This means there is far less data to keep state on (a hand of cards is very tiny json blob to send). Games like poker etc. don’t require “real time”, if a player takes 4 seconds to decide if they want to call/raise/fold etc. then an extra 200ms of latency isn’t even going to be noticeable. So we don’t really care if there is a bit of latency, these aren’t FPS games.

[cornel_io]

Yep - even apparently physics-based digital casino games (think pachinko-style) are not allowed to use the real physics, that's really just faked as an animation to match the strictly controlled odds that can be easily verified by code inspection.

[flemhans]

That should be considered cheating!

Games that pretend to be physics-based but in reality have a backed probability engine.

[cornel_io]

People who gamble understand this, it's literally the law.