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Message: [QUOTE="McFlySoHigh, post: 5759570, member: 406368"] I play mostly live cash games where the decks are shuffled using the DeckMate 2 by Shuffle Master. I did a lot of research on just how the DeckMate 2 shuffles a deck of cards. In fact, it doesn't shuffle them at all. When a new game is started, a dealer will typically wash the cards by spreading them around on the table and mixing them up. Players at times, when they feel they are card dead will often tip the dealer and ask for them to wash the cards- which the dealer will usually do-- prior to the deck being stacked and placed into the DeckMate. The washing, or even a hand shuffling of the deck prior to the deck being shuffled by the DeckMate has no effect on the final deck composition once the DeckMate has completed its operation. The reason for this is the DeckMate shuffles the deck of cards in nearly the same way a virtual deck of cards would be shuffled while playing online. Regardless of how the deck is composed prior to being shuffled by the DeckMate, hand shuffled, washed, or a brand new deck where the cards are ordered by rank and suit, the outcome of the final deck will be the same. (There is one exception to this I'll explain below). The DeckMate produces prior to shuffling a random number using an RNG. The number it generates represents a specific deck composition, predetermined by the random number, and the DeckMate then uses it's internal flywheel to scan each card and assemble the deck into the random number's coorelating output value. The only exception to the final composition is timing, as the RNG inside the deckmate is clocked, so the random number, or deck composition in which it will create, is determined by the exact timing of when the shuffle is executed. Therefore, asking the dealer to wash the deck prior to shuffling it in the DeckMate has no effect whatsoever on how the deck will be composed once shuffled, other than the timing difference, which is likely clocked to the millisecond, and is therefor irrelevant. So a shuffle playing live, is pretty much the same as online. Washing the cards prior to the DeckMate shuffling, has no effect on output. ShuffleMaster uses this technique to that virtually no deck is ever shuffled the same way twice. The number of possible deck combinations is 8.06e+67, which is to say the least, an astronomical number beyond comprehension. [/QUOTE]

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