To be honest, the RNG goes under the strongest scrutiny and it is indeed declared truely random. However, one thing that does not go through such a test (to my knowledge anyway, I could be wrong) is the shuffling procedure that uses those random numbers.
I have played on many sites and I have to admit, PKR is definitely the most funky. The number of straights and flushes that hit seem out of line with other sites. Just the other day I was witness to a crazy scene in a SnG. First hand one guy gets AA. He raises, gets a couple of callers. The flop looks fairly safe, it's rainbow, no pairs. One guy bets out and the guy with AA pushes all-in. He was insta called. The other guy had called with connectors and flopped a straight. The very NEXT hand, I fall victim to exactly the same to the exact same guy! I get dealt AA and slap in a bigger than usual raise after witnessing what happened. I get 2 callers. The flop is 8-5-4 rainbow. One guy bets out, I raise, he pushes. Unfortunately, most of my chips are now in the middle. I suspect could he have it again and I consider folding, but with only about 300 chips left and the feeling that it can't happen twice on a row, I call. He show 6-7 off suit. So, 2 hands in and AA hits twice at 220-1 each, then 2 straights flop at 76-1 each.
To rub in a bit of salt, I later tried out a few heads up games. I was doing well against one guy and he was down to 500 chips. I get dealt AA, push and he calls. He had Q-9 off suit. The flop? Guess! --- yep, it was 10-J-K. Another flopped straight against AA.
And this seems to happen a lot. In a cash game I was lucky enough to benefit. One guy raised with AK, I called with AQ. The flop was 10-J-K and I took a large amount of his stack. The very next hand he got KK and raised it up to get one caller. All the cash went in on the flop of --- yep, you got it --- 10-J-K. So he hit his trips ... but the guy who called had AQ. lol. I did comment on it at the time that broadway has flopped twice in a row. As I was speaking, the very next hand (yep, I'm not making this up), the flop was 10-J-Q. I laughed and asked who had AK? Well, no one did on this occassion, but someone did have K-9. Yet another big flopped straight.
If you read the PKR site, it does explain their shuffling procedure as this:
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We create an array with each of the 52 cards in order (2c, 2d, 2h, 2s, 3c... ... Ah, As). We then use the RNG to assign 32-bit random numbers (from 0 to 4,294,967,295) to each card. We then sort the array in increasing order using the number assigned to each card, generating a random permutation of the order of cards in the deck.
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If I'm honest, I don't like it and don't understand why they do it that way. They use HUGE numbers to seperate the cards. This means that if a 7 is dealt, even if the next random number is 100,000,000 bigger, the next card could still be a 7 or an 8. So why use 4 billion to seperate just 52 cards?
These are just my thoughts and I certainly have no evidence to back anything up, so it is pure personal opinion. I don't think PKR is rigged, but it very well may not be the best shuffler of cards, which could explain why so many connected cards and flushes hit the board. PKR is playable, mainly because there are a lot of bad players there. But if you do play PKR, just expect and get used to seeing boards like 9-10-J-K-A with 3 or 4 of them suited
Of course, I could be totally wrong