The reason I ask this is because one of the Casinos I went to had one of these electric shoes. Basically after every two hands. The discard pile was then feeded back into the shoe, which shuffles the cards before going back to the top of the deck. The topic title is just a rhetorical question, I do believe its beatable, but it does have several big drawbacks compared to normal shoes where cards are manually shuffled and a player selects where to cut the deck.
The problem is that play is continous and effectively never ending which is a great advantage to the casino because more hand gets played every hour meaning the non-counting and non-BS players are at a disadvantage because they lose their BR more quickly. This also brings in another problem because I never get a breather from counting and My head starts whizzing because of the fact I have to apply the count, BS and take into account there is 6 decks while trying to keep my cool in front of pit bosses and dealers.
However I do believe there is significant advantages. Firstly all the cards are in play and the count can help when it comes to judging whether the deck has gone through a cycle and if you play for a long time, it is possible to recognize patterns in the deck much like if you were to continously play a single deck without shuffling and the entire deck is never shuffled at any point.
I was just wondering what other people thoughts tips and theories are?
The problem is that play is continous and effectively never ending which is a great advantage to the casino because more hand gets played every hour meaning the non-counting and non-BS players are at a disadvantage because they lose their BR more quickly. This also brings in another problem because I never get a breather from counting and My head starts whizzing because of the fact I have to apply the count, BS and take into account there is 6 decks while trying to keep my cool in front of pit bosses and dealers.
However I do believe there is significant advantages. Firstly all the cards are in play and the count can help when it comes to judging whether the deck has gone through a cycle and if you play for a long time, it is possible to recognize patterns in the deck much like if you were to continously play a single deck without shuffling and the entire deck is never shuffled at any point.
I was just wondering what other people thoughts tips and theories are?