Casinos hire professional persons with degrees in casino management, business degrees, finance degrees, etc. They make the decisions about the issues your raise. You play in Detroit. But, you should realize, all casinos operate out of the same money/business management books. It seems to me, you are playing too frequently in poker rooms, you really don't care for. I understand that. No way, I would play in Greektown and Motor City a total of five days a week.
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I appreciate all of your responses. I wasnt expecting too much in the way of affirmation, and that's good. Obviously I am not totally convinced of my own speculation about this or I wouldnt play poker 5 days a week at the Detroit casinos. I get hypomanic often and when I do sometimes mild paranoia or suspiciousness developes, in this case about automatic shufflers. Nevertheless, here are some things that still bother me:
1) Greektown Casino in Detroit has 18 tables, 90% of which at any given time are spreading a timed collection NL game. Since dealing extra hands per hour generates them no extra income with this time collection, why do they generously pay the monthly leasing for shufflers on each and every one of their tables?
2)Why is the dealer only allowed to cut once, yet not do anything else to the deck?
3)Why do these devices have infrared lasers installed in them, yet reportedly are not capable of reading the cards?
4)Why are these devices so expensive to purchase that most casinos lease them? The purchase price is listed as $14,000 on the website,
www.shufflemaster.com. Is the machinery required just to produce a random shuffle so sophisticated as to cost this much?
-J
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