Automatic card shuffler--any good?

[rtrombone]

I was looking around for a dealer button when I came across this automatic card shuffler:

http://www.pokerchipmart.com/accessory_cardShuffler6.html

Does anybody have any experience with these? It would be great for home games but I'm skeptical that anything so cheap can work well.

[sucka]

my wife bought me one...bless her heart...

The thing is a total piece of [censored]. Don't waste your time. First off, you have to break the deck in half anyway and manually push a button to shuffle. Second, it is unbearably loud.

If you really want one - I'll send you mine. You pay for shipping. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[highlife]

yeah its garbage, and IMO its kind of gay to have a machine shuffle the cards for you.

[cardcounter0]

I think it is kind of gay to call things "gay".

[Clarkmeister]

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Stop being retarded.

[highlife]

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yeah you homo.

[Alobar]

it completely blows, my grandparents got one and I played with it for 5 minutes and it broke. It took longer than shuffling normally anyway, heh

[DrSavage]

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it completely blows, my grandparents got one and I played with it for 5 minutes and it broke. It took longer than shuffling normally anyway, heh

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It does take longer, but it shouldn't be a problem if you play with 2 decks.
I'd think a quality shuffler (like the ones in casinos) should be good, dunno about the one in the link.

[sucka]

I'm not even sure that you could find a poker table that had the built in autoshuffler like they use in casino's. And, even if you could you'd likely have to pony up some serious moola to own it.

FWIW, I've played at a casino with autoshufflers in the main games - it totally rocks. My best estimate is you can see anywhere from 10-15 more hands per hour, depending on the dealer.

[Paul2432]

The shuffle master machines used at the Bicycle club and elsewhere cost around $20,000 from what I understand. Regardless, they are not, AFAIK, available to the general public, but only to licensed gaming establishments.

Paul

[SheridanCat]

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My best estimate is you can see anywhere from 10-15 more hands per hour, depending on the dealer.

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Whoa, the dealers where you play must be really terrible. I'd be very surprised if you got that many extra hands from a competent deal with the autoshuffler. That would be a 30-50% increase in hands - assuming competence.

Regards,

T

[Sponger15SB]

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yeah you homo.

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Automatic shufflers rule, It's durable and so simple to use, even a Puerto Rican can figure it out!

[KenProspero]

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I'd think a quality shuffler (like the ones in casinos) should be good, dunno about the one in the link.

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Which casinos have quality ones. I recently played in both Flamingo and Bellagio with both auto shufflers and dealer shufflers.

While the auto shufflers rate a 10 on a geek scale (the dealer pushes a button and the new deck is raised from a hole in the table), I don't think it took much less time than shuffling. When the machines broke, and we had to wait for them to get the cards out, it took longer.

On home versions -- I seem to remember a hand crank model growing up that didn't break. Didn't save any time, or shuffle the cards any better than we did, but it didn't break.

[dcJohn]

I think this is the same shuffler I got as a birthday gift last week. I'm a sucker for electronic gadgets, but I don't think this one really makes much sense.

Here's why...
This just does the automated equivalent of one shuffle. Which means, to get a decent shuffle, you're going to want to feed the cards to the machine 2, maybe three times at least. The mechanics of reloading just takes more time then simply doing it myself.

I sometimes play with folks who are kind of slow or clumsy for shuffling, particularly when they're trying to play a hand at the same time. In those cases, it might save a bit of time, but it's going to be pretty rare that it does.

Save the $.