Vegas dealing

1357111317

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With all the talk of how much casinos could make by not worrying so much about the counters I decided to do some calculations on exactly how much they can expect to lose. I was just looking for some statistics on the dealing and shuffling speed in vegas. I was looking for a guesstimate of how fast, on average a dealer will deal and then payout a round with 7 players at the table. Also on average how long, on average does it take a vegas dealer to plug the cutoffs, shuffle the cards, put the cut card in and deal the first card? This information is much appreciated.
 

nottooshabby

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1357111317,

I posted the following response in another thread a little while ago as someone else raised a similar question. This data was obtained in Atlantic City, though, not Vegas, and there is/was no mention of an ASM:

Table 92 of "Professional Blackjack" is titled "Average Times for Shuffling and Dealing Six-Deck Blackjack in Atlantic City". Granted, it is a small sample size (13 shuffles, 261 rounds of play). From the information provided, a shoe with only one player, on average, will yield 59 rounds, with an average of 12 seconds per round. 59 rounds/shoe * 12 sec/round = 708 sec/shoe, which comes out to 11.8 minutes per shoe for heads-up play. Wong cites that he kept the clock running during "short delays", usually buy-ins, during this study. Using just the information in this table, I got the following values:

2 players: 17.7 minutes/shoe
3 players: 14 minutes/shoe
4 players: 16.3 minutes/shoe
5 players: 24.1 minutes/shoe
6 players: 14.7 minutes/shoe
7 players: 24.8 minutes/shoe

Again, a small sample size, but I couldn't find any other data addressing this question in my references. The author also states that "Mean dealing time increased approximately linearly with the number of players. The average round of blackjack in Atlantic City took about (7n + 5) seconds, where "n" is the number of player hands".


Hope this helps.
 
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1357111317

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nottooshabby said:
1357111317,

I posted the following response in another thread a little while ago as someone else raised a similar question. This data was obtained in Atlantic City, though, not Vegas, and there is/was no mention of an ASM:

Table 92 of "Professional Blackjack" is titled "Average Times for Shuffling and Dealing Six-Deck Blackjack in Atlantic City". Granted, it is a small sample size (13 shuffles, 261 rounds of play). From the information provided, a shoe with only one player, on average, will yield 59 rounds, with an average of 12 seconds per round. 59 rounds/shoe * 12 sec/round = 708 sec/shoe, which comes out to 11.8 minutes per shoe for heads-up play. Wong cites that he kept the clock running during "short delays", usually buy-ins, during this study. Using just the information in this table, I got the following values:

2 players: 17.7 minutes/shoe
3 players: 14 minutes/shoe
4 players: 16.3 minutes/shoe
5 players: 24.1 minutes/shoe
6 players: 14.7 minutes/shoe
7 players: 24.8 minutes/shoe

Again, a small sample size, but I couldn't find any other data addressing this question in my references. The author also states that "Mean dealing time increased approximately linearly with the number of players. The average round of blackjack in Atlantic City took about (7n + 5) seconds, where "n" is the number of player hands".


Hope this helps.

I appreciate the effort but when you have 5 players at 24.1 minutes a shoe and 6 players at 14.7 minutes a shoe its tough to say that that those are accurate numbers.
 
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