Casino Card Handling Guidelines

[P-Train]

Hello all,

I'm interested in gambling demos. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find any casino standards for shuffling cards (or if they exist)? I know that they use shuffling devices for it all now, but I seem to recall there use to be published standards for handling cards at a casino. I remember there being rules dictating how high the cards can come off the table and things like that.

Am I remembering wrong? Is there a resource that has this information?

Thanks in advance!

 

[ladexterite]

Depends on what game you want to replicate. Most Casinos nowadays use a one2six shuffler. The decks that are delivered to the Pit are already pre-shuffled and are ready to be fed into the machine for another shuffle right before the game begins.

But there are still other tables wherein the deck is still hand shuffled by the dealer.

For a game of Stud Poker. The deck is chemmy shuffled by spreading the cards out face down, and sliding them around and over each other with one's hands. Then the cards are moved into one pile so that they begin to intertwine and are then arranged back into a stack. Then the deck is fed onto a regular shuffling machine twice. After the shuffle, the cards are spread out on the table to make sure that everything is faced down, a cut card is then given to the first person seated at the leftmost side for the deck to be cut(Each person taking turns in cutting the deck after every round). After the cut, the deck is placed in a 'Shoebox' ready to be dealt already.

For a game of Texas Hold 'Em, after the chemmy shuffle, The dealer then riffle shuffles then strip cuts the deck for atleast two times before it can be cut by the players.

Most(If not all) Dealers are trained in a way that is advantageous to the house. For example, when the deck is about to be intertwined after the chemmy, SOP is pile the deck face down(One cannot lift the deck to the sides and intertwine them all because the players/dealer may get a good look on what are the order of the cards). Another is by keeping two cut cards for the deck. One for cutting and one at the bottom of the deck to prevent peeking.