I wasn't aware they do > 1 round cycles with CSM's. Is that true? I don't play CSM's (for obvious reasons,) but the ones that I had played in the past were 1 round-to-cycle. Meaning, after the dealer draws and resolves hands, they 'burn' the cards back into the shuffler.
I was recently in Nova Scotia (beautiful province, wonderful people, terrible casino) and it was all 6D CSMs. They would play one deck and then recycle the discards. Interestingly, they had one of those huge video BJ games. It claimed to deal 2/3 of a 6D shoe before 'shuffling'. I didn't stick around to figure out how you can tell if that's the case, but if it is, while crappy, its much less crappy than an CSM dealing 1/6 of a shoe.
I was in there recently and can confirm that exactly what you heard is true. I believe I saw three tables that had CSMs, but everything else looked the same. When I say "looked the same" though, I have to add that I`m not in there much. So I don`t know exactly what those tables were before they had CSMs on them. To clarify a little bit though, I did still see both DD and SD games.
I just got back from a visit to the sweaty Spaniard. I found 2 tables with CSM's attached, in a quad-table pit with two other hand-shuffled tables. The remaining tables were unaltered (same rules/game offering we're accustom to).
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