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09-26-2005, 04:20 PM
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Shufflers
<font color="black"> </font> I'm looking into buying an automatic shuffler (or 2) but I barely know anything about them. Every home game I've played in has used players /spectators /dealers to shuffle. Maybe I haven't played in the right places, but that's beside the point.
Are they noisy? Are they difficult to use? do they break? Do you recommend a specific one/ specific website?? Are they fast/convienent? Those of you that own them, do you use them? Thanks to anyone who replies. 
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#2
09-26-2005, 04:32 PM
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Re: Shufflers
shufflers suck unless they are the casino 10k kind. o believe a 2+2er is trying to build a really good one but dont know how far he has gotten
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#3
09-26-2005, 05:20 PM
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Re: Shufflers
I got the official World Series of Poker shuffler as a gift. Giant piece of crap. It shuffled one side much faster than the other, so that the last dozen cards were from the left side.
Love the thought of a card shuffler. But I haven't seen a good one for home use.
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#4
09-26-2005, 05:29 PM
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Re: Shufflers
[ QUOTE ]
<font color="black"> </font>Are they noisy? Are they difficult to use? do they break? Do you recommend a specific one/ specific website?? Are they fast/convienent? Those of you that own them, do you use them? [/ QUOTE ] I have a cheap automatic shuffler, the kind you can get for $10 at your local department store of choice. It does its job, but it's so much easier to give the deck three riffles and a cut by hand. I have never used the automatic shuffler during a poker night and don't ever intend to.
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#6
09-26-2005, 07:48 PM
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Re: Shufflers
I'm the 2+2er who is trying to build a better shuffler. I am still working on it.
It has been through a few variations and a complete redesign. It is really not very easy to get a machine to randomize cards. My first stab at it worked very well, but damaged the cards over time. Basically I was in the same boat as you and found there are 2 kinds of shufflers on the market. The cheap ones you find in gift stores, and the $10K+ ones you can buy if you are a casino. The gift store ones are noisy, ineffective, and need to be reloaded for each shuffle. One of my criteria is that mine needed to shuffle continuously. It's getting close (again). I will make sure to announce any new news. Kevin
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#8
09-27-2005, 11:31 AM
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Re: Shufflers
The only automatic shufflers ive seen are the home versions where you need to cut the deck and put one half of the deck in either side of the unit. It riffles them together....no boxing, no cutting. It often does not shuffle the bottom card into the deck...
So basically you are paying for a machine to simply riffle your cards... If you can riffle worth a lick, then it makes these home shufflers a waste of time and money.
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#9
09-27-2005, 12:07 PM
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Re: Shufflers
I remember as a child my grandparents had a shuffle machine that had a little hand crank. The way it worked was you would put the cards in the top/center in a card shaped rectangle box. Underneath the cards there was a device that had two parrallel axels running the length of the deck of cards. Each of these axels had what looked like 1/3 of a wheel, and as you turned the handle, the axels would spin in opposite directions toward the side they were on. Only one of the 1/3 wheel pieces would be touching the cards at a time, and they would take a full deck and pull cards to each side as you turned the handle, and they would spit out into a tray on each side. So the effect was the same as a shuffle, except you would split a full deck into two half decks and one or two cards at a time would spit out each side. I know it seems bass ackward compared ot a regular shuffle, but the mechanics of the device were quite simple.
Thanks for bring this memory back. I'm going to call them and see if they can find it and perhaps have it sent to me. If I get my hands on it, I can post a few pics.
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