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You wouldn't get to see the shuffle though, as most casinos will use an auto shuffler that shuffles one shoe while the other is in play. 6-8 decks would be har
by tomschlick 10y ago
You wouldn't get to see the shuffle though, as most casinos will use an auto shuffler that shuffles one shoe while the other is in play.
6-8 decks would be hard to figure out until maybe halfway through. Could do some analysis on the probability of a face card though that would really pay off towards the end of the shoe.
- ec109685 10y agoThere are a lot of games that don't use auto shuffler still.
- downandout 10y agoMany casinos don't use auto-shufflers on all games, especially on higher limit games, because gamblers generally don't trust them. This applies to all casinos on the Strip that I'm aware of. Re: it being hard to figure out on 6-8 decks, the scenario presented was that his mind is a supercomputer with perfect memory and he has perfect vision. So he could very easily determine the exact order of an unlimited number of cards by watching the shuffle and knowing the starting order of the cards (that being said, you can walk into any high end casino on the strip and play up to 6 blackjack spots at $10,000 each on a hand-shuffled, double deck game - MGM, Aria, Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Caesars Palace, The Mirage, etc). You're thinking in terms of human constraints; that's not what this hypothetical was about.
- tomschlick 10y agoFair enough, I wasn't considering the high limit rooms use a manual shuffle. Still it would be pretty suspicious to walk in, go straight to a high limit table, watch a full shoe, wait until a shuffle happens, then buy in and shoot for the max and win more than the odds say you should.