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.
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?
Can anyone explain this part of the story? Makes no sense.
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.
