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. 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.
It's shocking that Golden Nugget named the players in their lawsuit.
They might as well remove their baccarat game now.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Misscraps <misscraps@...> wrote:
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> According to an article in today's paper, Golden Nugget in Atlantic
City ordered a preshuffled bunch of cards to be used at baccarat, which
I assume would be something like 8 or more decks, since that is normally
used for that game. Players noticed the same order of cards coming out
over and over and started betting high and then won 1.5 million. Now
the casino doesn't want to pay them and they are suing, and the casino
is suing Gemaco, the people who made the cards.
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> This makes no sense to me. First, why would a casino order a
preshuffled deck from somewhere else? They would have to shuffle the
deck(s) again anyway after discarding. Secondly, whenever I've seen new
decks brought into a game, the casino always spreads the decks and then
checks them for manufacturing errors. Whether deck or decks were
supposedly preshuffled or not, wouldn't the casino need to check them
for manufacturing defects and thus see they weren't shuffled? Wouldn't
the casino want to reshuffle even supposedly preshuffled decks? And why
have them preshuffled anyway, for a onetime bonus of no
shuffling...wouldn't you want to check the decks for defects, make sure
the right number of cards were there, and then reshuffle?
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> Can anyone explain this part of the story? Makes no sense.
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> A new TV show called Cheating Vegas just focused on baccarat cheating
from the Tran family, which involved dealers in cahoots with players to
not shuffle part of the deck(s), which is understandable. But a casino
ordering preshuffled cards just makes no sense to me.
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