I was recently at a casino trying to figure out the delay in a csm when it jammed and I got to see inside. Now I was lucky because it jammed when a card was being inserted into the wheel, yet it was extracting a card at the same time from the other end of the wheel.
The wheel had about 50 (i couldn't cound them) compartments. It seems each compartment can hold at most about 8 cards. Cards are always inserted into the top of the compartment, and always removed from the bottom of a compartment. The compartment to insert/remove from is randomly picked (I assume)
However, since there are on average 312/50 = 6ish cards per compartment, then there are at least 5 other cards that come out before a card that is fed in. Also since a compartment is picked randomly, there is very high chance that cards do not re-appear until at least on average the majority of compartments have been pulled with 5 cards. In other words the delay seems extremely large.
I tend to think that the CSM's still largely clump cards. In that when a hand is played out, all those cards goto the top of random comparments, and thus each card will not appear until at least 5 other cards have come out.
Does anyone have links to tech documents that might have exactally how many compartments the machines have and how many cards fit in each one? That way we could work out the distribution and work out how deep you can count and what probability that count is of being accurate.
For example if you have just counted 6 hands that total to say 60 cards, the chance of any of those cards being in the next hand is still extremely small, because one compartment out of 50 would have to have been accessed 6-8 times over.
The wheel had about 50 (i couldn't cound them) compartments. It seems each compartment can hold at most about 8 cards. Cards are always inserted into the top of the compartment, and always removed from the bottom of a compartment. The compartment to insert/remove from is randomly picked (I assume)
However, since there are on average 312/50 = 6ish cards per compartment, then there are at least 5 other cards that come out before a card that is fed in. Also since a compartment is picked randomly, there is very high chance that cards do not re-appear until at least on average the majority of compartments have been pulled with 5 cards. In other words the delay seems extremely large.
I tend to think that the CSM's still largely clump cards. In that when a hand is played out, all those cards goto the top of random comparments, and thus each card will not appear until at least 5 other cards have come out.
Does anyone have links to tech documents that might have exactally how many compartments the machines have and how many cards fit in each one? That way we could work out the distribution and work out how deep you can count and what probability that count is of being accurate.
For example if you have just counted 6 hands that total to say 60 cards, the chance of any of those cards being in the next hand is still extremely small, because one compartment out of 50 would have to have been accessed 6-8 times over.
