(Unconfirmed) reports that El Cortez has installed CSMs.

[ZeeBabar]

Can anyone confirm if CSMs have now be installed?

On this forum, you gotta wait for the answer to your question. The thread goes in different directions and on the 3-5th page, there is an answer somewhere.

[FerrisB]

I played there a couple weeks ago. They do have suffle machines, but the dealer dealt the cards. This is how it was at a couple of the DD tables I played.

[hypercube]

soo funny.. csm is probably easily beatable if single deck, and beatable in double deck. basically you know the cards on the table from last round are not coming out the next two rounds.

[lij45o6]

soo funny.. csm is probably easily beatable if single deck, and beatable in double deck. basically you know the cards on the table from last round are not coming out the next two rounds.

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.

[Red Green]

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.

[ZenMaster_Flash]

I was recently in Nova Scotia
(beautiful province, wonderful people, terrible casino)

I concur on all three points.

[SplitFaceDisaster]

As the title suggests, someone on another forum has stated that El Cortez has replaced a number of its SD and DD games with multi deck CSMs. The good news, if some good news can be taken away from this, is that there still remains some of their SD and DD games. Perhaps someone in the area can confirm this for us?

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.

[BlackjackFeign]

How can the el Cortez afford renting CSM’s?

[21forme]

How can the el Cortez afford renting CSM’s?

Because they have outstanding game protection, throwing out any player raising a bet from $5 to $10 that happens to conincide with some small cards coming out.

[Koz84]

Because they have outstanding game protection, throwing out any player raising a bet from $5 to $10 that happens to conincide with some small cards coming out.

Not sure what was wrong with the pit a couple months back, but I was spreading 1-3 in green on SD, and 1-4 in green on DD for three consecutive days.

[blackjackomaha]

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).

[COBeardown95]

Ploppies gotta play something!

[BJGenius007]

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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