Auto shufflers are bad
First They are bad for mentality.
Casinos probably think, well if they accepted this they will probably accept CSM one day. AND THAt WILL HAPPEN. It is especially bad for beginners because they won't make dIfference in between csm and automatic shufflers. They will go to casino with some story that somebody told them how you can beat blackjack just knowing that 2,3,4,5,6, are +1 cards and 10s, and As are -1 cards, and there they are thinking they have key to every single bank. But insteAd they just lose and lose and lose! Casinos love that. People come to casinos thinking they are doing the right thing, and is easy as 1,2,3. Well it is not. It is not easy to make money in casino, specially if you are limited to card counting only.
Second, shuffle track, and ace location do not work at all when auto shufflers are used. For me that is enough. With card counting OK, you make some money, maybe, but being limited only to card counting, playing as single card counter is not profitable at all these days, unless you have $50 000 bankroll. Sorry but I want play blackjack just to make $10 per hour. If that is profit for somebody, than I can recommend community college, and getting some good certtficate, and making as much as $18 per hour.
Now we come to laziness. Shuffle track and ace location is hard. So what? Anybody can master it. But yes it takes months and months of practice. Today's books try to make you use some easy system. AS easy as 1,2,3, boom you are master, you are king.........bla bla bla......... yes only for lazy people who doesn't wanna study and spend hours practicing will be interested in something like that. And guess what, they will be losers big time! The only money maker will be book writer.
Very serious problem these days is layziness, that is heavily promoted in blackjack books ( I will be free to say that even some well known authors do not say anything about how hard it is actually to be profitable card counter just to sell their books better).
Automatic shufflers seem to create dead even game. Yes they are beatable but why don't you want to be in control. Why do you accept everything that is offered by casino. Why don't you want to have influence on game.
Automatic shufflers completely kill shuffle track and ace location, and that's why they are designed, not to speed up the game. Yes they most definitely speed up the game for casinos, and casino most definitely speed up process of draining your wallet.
If something is designed to improve casino income and at the same time kills some of advatage strategies is a bad thing that should be avoided!
The best example is Europe. Automatic shufflers took over completely, now CSM are getting ready to replace auto shufflers and take over completely. Being from Europe I know this very well. At least 90% of casinos use machines to shuffle cards. No more profit over there. And that all happened just because European players do not know anything about advantage strategies. They heard something that BJ can be beaten and than they play thinking it can be beaten but how actualy that is done well who cares ...it can be beaten right? Casinos are completely in control!
Same thing is going to happen in USA.
That is why we have to be very conservative about the games we play.
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