Re: [vpFREE] Re: Unshuffled cards cost Golden Nugget millions -- I don't get it

On 8/22/2012 7:35 AM, goldfada@verizon.net wrote:
>
> The cards in "big" baccarat shoes (as opposed to minibaccarat) are dealt
> only once because the players are allowed to crease the cards. Buying
> preshuffled cards saves the time otherwise required to shuffle them and
> thus allows the casinos to deal more hands in the same amount of time.
> New Jersey regulations allow preshuffled cards.
>

First of all, the Associated Press says it was MINI baccarat:
"ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — At first, it seemed like a coincidence, the
kind of thing that happens from time to time at a casino, where the same
number or same sequence of cards happens twice in a row. But when the
players at an April game of mini-baccarat at the Golden Nugget Atlantic
City kept seeing the same sequence of cards dealt, over and over and
over again, their eyes grew wide and their bets grew bigger, zooming
from $10 a hand to $5,000.

> They must be sealed
> after the shuffle so that dealers and floor supervisors may not inspect
> them. It's a good idea when things work the way they're supposed to,
> but apparently nobody stopped to think what might happen if things went
> wrong.
>
Sealing them after which "shuffle," Gemaco's?

> It's shocking that Golden Nugget named the players in their lawsuit.
> They might as well remove their baccarat game now.
>
Why is it "shocking"? What is more shocking is that the Nugget had a
table of people betting $5,000 a hand and apparently didn't exercise any
supervision on it:
"But when the players at an April game of mini-baccarat at the Golden
Nugget Atlantic City kept seeing the same sequence of cards dealt, over
and over and over again, their eyes grew wide and their bets grew
bigger, zooming from $10 a hand to $5,000." Maybe the Casino Control
Commission and Division of Gaming Enforcement have completely abdicated
their supposedly legally mandated duties.
>



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