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It blows my mind that any casino in the world could be a victim of edge sorting. See: http://apheat.net/2012/06/28/what-is-edge-sorting/ http://apheat.net/2012

• mwill 13y ago
  I imagine it's a case of the casino's just assuming the card manufacturer is up to spec, and having no, or limited in house quality check on the cards. I imagine most people who handle the cards would look for markings made by players, and assume everything else is as it should be. Looks like the manufacturer in this case is already being sued by a couple of casinos (Borgata included), and I imagine more are incoming.
  • ghshephard 13y ago
    Reading through discussions of "edge sorting" - it turns out that most decks are manufactured with an asymmetry, and the simple act of cutting the deck and doing a "turn" prior to sorting dealing, prevents an asymmetric pattern that can be leveraged by players. This was just poor practice by the casino - you would think that the various Pit Bosses would ensure that the dealers were turning the cards...
  • thaumasiotes 13y ago
    Your logic doesn't make any sense. We don't pasteurize milk if and only if the supplier says "it's probably diseased", we pasteurize it all on principle. It's trivial to prevent edge sorting regardless of the quality of the deck, by rotating half the deck whenever you shuffle.