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Shuffling Machine Generates More Money Say Casino Operators

Shuffling cards can eat a lot of time while playing in casinos. If shuffling cards takes to much time the casino would soon lose money. However, the dealer can speed up the play by doing simultaneous shuffling techniques. An automatic shuffling machine can do the job. This allows the play to continue without interruption.

Some shuffling machine can shuffle-up one set of cards while the dealer has in play the other set of cards. It is known as the Continuous Shuffle Machine which allows minimal deck penetration.

As for online casinos, decks of cards are reshuffled before the game starts. The online players will see animations showing the shuffling of cards to give illusion that the cards are really being shuffled. But the truth of the matter is actually the cards are not reshuffled after every round. It's like wrapping the totality of the illusion of the set of cards being shuffled when it's actually not. The program has its own unique way of reshuffling the cards to be given out to the online players. Thus, this gives the security of the cards not being tampered. The illusion is only for show.

Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. Shuffling is often followed by a cut, to ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome.

To avoid inside jobs for shuffling cards, shuffling machines came about. Many casinos employ automatic shuffling machines which perform continuous shuffles on a pack of cards, and can produce any number of cards on demand. Note that the shuffling machines have to be carefully designed, otherwise they can generate biased shuffles . The most recent shuffling machines are computer-controlled.

Many casinos operators and players like the use of shuffling machines. Dealers do not have to waste time manually shuffling the cards. From the casino perspective, time is money or else the casino can kiss their players goodbye. The more hands you are dealt per hour, the better. From the player's perspective, your perspective speed kills in a casino environment. The more time you are exposed to the house advantage, the more it will weaken your bank account. These conditions force the dealer to shuffle more, which with smart play, keeps your exposure to the casino's edge at a minimum.

The newest shuffling machines, came out of the market, are essentially black boxes. Moreover, they rely not on the physical randomness of interlacing cards (as in a riffle shuffle) but on computer-generated numbers to determine card distribution.

 

Thursday, September 14 , 2006
Edward O'Connor