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I have played Pinochle w friends who always wanted the dealer to shuffle the deck less since they believed that this would more likely result in good/interestin
by waynecochran 2y ago
I have played Pinochle w friends who always wanted the dealer to shuffle the deck less since they believed that this would more likely result in good/interesting hands (four of kind, straight, pinochle...). This seems to stem from the notion that randomness looks different or is less interesting. If all sequence of cards are equally likely, the ratio of interesting hands to all hands seems worse for a less shuffled deck since the cards are interleaved throughout all the players.
- remram 2y agoThis is true if you deal one card at a time. If you deal 2 by 2 or 3 by 3 on the other hand...
- less_less 2y agoThere's a Dutch card game called Rikken that intentionally incorporates bad shuffling. It's a trick-taking game, so the cards get clumped by suit during the hand, and you shuffle very lightly between hands. After shuffling, the cards are dealt several at a time to each player, so players tend to get much more suited hands than with a well-shuffled deck.