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Originally Posted by smoothcriminal99
Not incredibly knowledgeable in that field but doesn’t that require a reader that’s kinda bulky and has to be set up to point at the specific card.
Certainly that was the case a decade ago when a player in Austin was cheating like this. He sat in seat 5 with his cell phone out and the dealer would place the deck in front of him prior to dealing (if memory serves me correctly). Surely this technology has improved in 10 years though. Anyways, wouldn't it be the shuffler itself that reads the cards? Then it would just be a matter of relaying that data to the cheating player, although then cutting the deck would screw it up.
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Originally Posted by smoothcriminal99
Also need to keep track of positions as missed blinds/buying the button etc will mess it up.
It would just need to know the number of players. So if a player left to use the restroom then the program would need to know there are 8 players instead of 9. Positions are irrelevant as you can just call them Player 1, Player 2, Player 3 etc starting with the first player dealt cards.
The one thing that's really puzzling to me is why the club would want shufflers at all. Unless they were getting them for free, it doesn't make much sense. They need to explain that.