Are the Poker Night games rigged?

I've played poker in real life and I've played Poker Night at the Inventory (but not Poker Night 2).

I have the feeling that the Poker Night engine manipulates the deck to give players a more interesting game experience. I'll come right out and admit that I base this entirely on subjective evidence, but it seems like when I'm betting big and hoping for a miracle to come along on the last card, I'm more likely to get it in Poker Night than I am to get it with a real deck of cards.

Is this just luck or do the Poker Night games cheat to make things more dramatic?

Solution 1:

Poker Night and Poker Night 2 are not rigged.

Jake Rodkin of Telltale Games said:

It's not cheating. The game has no motivation to cheat! Why would we write cheating code into a game which is only fun when it's authentic? There's no money on the line, only unlocks which we want you to have. No cheating, I promise.

Mike Stemmie of Telltale Games also said:

Speaking as someone who waded through much more of the poker code than our lead programmer was probably comfortable with, I can say this with a nigh-absolute degree of certainty: The amount of extra work that would be required to make the the game cheat (even a little bit) would've prohibitively annoying.

And like Jake said, cheating would gain us nothing.

Mike "Winners Never Cheat" Stemmle