PokerDonkey26
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Anyone know if the ShuffleMaster electronic blackjack tables are similar to live table games when it comes to house egde, or if they are programmed like a slot machine to keep or payback a certain percentage?
ShuffleMaster Electronic Blackjack
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ihate17
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Shuffled every hand
This is just another attempt by ShuffleMaster to appeal to the two main things that enable you to make a fortune selling stuff to casinos, greed and paranoia.
If the table needs no dealer they save those salaries and the money you might have tipped a dealer they believe will also be the casinos.
If the table still needs a dealer, there is less supervision needed, so reduced pit and eye staff.
The cards can not be counted, the system prevents capped bets, so the paranoia end is covered.
Casinos in areas where there is competition will throw their money away on these kind of things. Casinos in places like North Carolina will make money with them. To date, where ever there has been competition, the electronic blackjack table sits idle while the regular tables have people waiting to play. What ShuffleMaster and foolish casino execs think is that people will play whatever they throw out there and that they have the power to make a table game player into a machine player. So far the superstitions of even unknowledgable table game players keeps them away from these things.
ihate17
I believe the house edge is programmed into the rules in the same way that the edge is programmed into the payouts in VP. I also believe that they shuffle on every hand, so counting is useless.PokerDonkey26 said:
This is just another attempt by ShuffleMaster to appeal to the two main things that enable you to make a fortune selling stuff to casinos, greed and paranoia.
If the table needs no dealer they save those salaries and the money you might have tipped a dealer they believe will also be the casinos.
If the table still needs a dealer, there is less supervision needed, so reduced pit and eye staff.
The cards can not be counted, the system prevents capped bets, so the paranoia end is covered.
Casinos in areas where there is competition will throw their money away on these kind of things. Casinos in places like North Carolina will make money with them. To date, where ever there has been competition, the electronic blackjack table sits idle while the regular tables have people waiting to play. What ShuffleMaster and foolish casino execs think is that people will play whatever they throw out there and that they have the power to make a table game player into a machine player. So far the superstitions of even unknowledgable table game players keeps them away from these things.
ihate17