Casino Card Shuffling Methods

If playing a multi-deck casino game in a land-based gambling establishment, you will likely be playing with one of three shuffling methods.  In other words, the dealer will use one of three methods to shuffle the cards to insure fairness and randomness. 

Obviously, manual shuffling is when the dealer physically picks up the cards with his or her own hands.  In more modern casinos you will never see manual shuffling, but will see shuffling done by machines, which brings me to the second method of shuffling cards - an automatic shuffling machine.  This is a separate machine that shuffles the cards, which the dealer takes and then places in a shoe to begin playing with. 

The third type of card shuffling is also done with a machine, and goes a step further.  In addition to shuffling the cards, a Continuous Shuffling Machine (as it is called) dispenses newly shuffled cards to the dealer each time he of she needs one to deal.  When the dealer immediately places a discard into the machine, (which serves as a shoe in a way) it is automatically shuffled, thus alleviating any delays or erroneous card shuffles.

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