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In the past it was not unusual for 2 to 3 players to win something if just a pair of 10's in most every hand. Today, in most deals, only one player, if any, on the table wins. That virtually never happened with hand shuffling. I have sat at a table where all 6 players were regularly dealt 10 to 12 hands and no one won at all. And you?Īs a long time player of the "let it ride"carnival game, I played for almost 3 years before the shuffle machines were used. We’re endlessly fascinated by how casinos do what they do. The history of card shufflers is riveting, so naturally, you won’t find it here. Imagine a global company being based on wood. In the SHFL offices, there’s a wooden prototype of their first automatic shuffler, from 1983, made mostly of wood. Most automatic shuffling machines you see in casinos were made by Shufflemaster, a company now called SHFL Entertainment for reasons lost on us. Let’s watch.Īmazing stuff, don’t you think? It’s like capturing footage of a Sasquatch, or something even more rare, like video of Criss Angel solving a math problem. It won’t take long for you to learn this about us. Which we’re pretty sure we weren’t supposed to do. We grabbed some sweet video of the automatic card shuffler in action. The machine we saw the innards of was being used at a three card poker table, so the cards were coming out in batches of three.
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Wheels and gears and belts and motors move the cards around with robot-like efficiency, dispensing them based upon the game being played. The shuffling machine’s a lot more complicated than we’d imagined. Automatic card shufflers are complicated. Our mind still hasn’t stopped being blown. We were given a rare glimpse into the inner workings of an automatic card shuffler at a Strip hotel during some routine maintenance. These mysterious black boxes do their job, quietly and effectively, making sure the cards come out randomly, to protect both the casino and the player. If you’ve played a card game in a Las Vegas casino, you’ve probably had your cards shuffled by an automatic card shuffler.