[dghughes]

An interesting bit if history. Electronic card shuffles were invented by a former truck driver. Casinos rented the devices from his company I don't think any were sold (their value was approximately $20,000 each).

I haven't worked at a casino for four years but at that time I beleive the market opened up. It sounds like a patent expired or maybe the fisr card shuffle company was sold.

[zxcvbn4038]

You can buy card shufflers on Amazon for under twenty dollars. I've only used one once and geez was it loud - hopefully they do not all have that issue.

https://www.amazon.com/card-shuffler-automatic-card-shuffler...

[dghughes]

The casino type shuffler have cameras to read the cards and remember the order of the cards after shuffling them. It also has a pseudorandom number generator it uses as a guide to shuffling randomly. You need to set the card type before loading too. Casinos order their own cards so you need to make sure the shuffler can read them.

At casinos there's so many proprietary devices for example a small plastic block like a prism the size of a quarter. It sits on the table in the area where the dealer sets his cards. Blackjack dealers use it to view their cards when face down only they can see the image. Just that little stupid plastic block is patented and costs something like $10 per device per day for every casino that leases them.