Quote Originally Posted by Most Interesting Man View Post
I suppose it depends on how non-random the shuffle being used is. I did read about a certain shuffle if applied to a fresh deck would greatly increase the house advantage against anyone making playing decisions based on basic strategy (pretty much everyone). I can't remember where I read about that. If the deck were configured like so and then future shuffles were extremely weak it may open the door to just that possibility. All speculation, and no research. Someone with a shuffle simulator and knowledge of what that initial deck configuration is may be able to prove or disprove this.
There is a shuffle called the faro shuffle. With it one can take a new deck of cards and in a couple
of shuffles exactly seperate the reds from the blacks. In exactly 8 shuffles the deck comes back
to its ORIGINAL condition. Can anything else be done with it? Of course.