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Now if you have been watching a film or reading a book in which a team of professional gamblers sting a casino for a tidy sum by card counting or mastering the art of shuffle tracking and you think that
sounds easy and a sure fire way to win at playing Blackjack then think again!
Shuffle tracking is a very advanced way of counting cards that means a player or team of players knows where a sequence of cards is in a shoe and will closely watch the shuffle to
ensure they
know where they are.
They then up their stakes once they know their favourable cards are about to be dealt out by the dealer and thus can turn the advantage around to themselves and usually make a profit.
This will work better on a bigger deck being a 6 or 8 Deck shoe as they visually are much easier to track, but casinos have found ways around this element of
the game and tracking a shuffle is now much harder to do.
They have now installed automatic card shufflers which ensure the shuffle is 100% random whilst at the same time ensuring it is done in such a way that no one can track where
any of the cards are in the shoe!
Gone have the days of a corrupt dealer shuffling in such a way that players can easily keep track of any cards, the machines also count the cards in the shoe and if it detects any of them
are missing or indeed if any additional cards have been added it will alert the in house security team and/or the Pit Boss.
They can also continously shuffle cards which means any attempt to keep track of any cards in the shoe is virtually impossible.
In basic terms these automatic card shufflers are an electronic box in which the cards are placed, once inside the machine performs several movements which ensures the cards
are shuffled correctly and in
such away that this shuffle is random.
From the outside of the machine it is impossible to see inside of it so visual tracking of the cards is impossible. How times have changed, but in all fairness it helps both the casino
and the player to ensure the game is honest and above board.
So you should look at such devices as player friendly as they do not effect the game in any way they just ensure all is legit, fair and honest, which is what you should be demanding from whichever
casino you frequent.
So if you do see your playing cards being fed into such a machine then don't worry there is no skull duggery a foot, it is simply the casino making sure you aren't up to mischief and all is well with their Blackjack game.
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