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A number of good points here, but:
Originally Posted by
Ace-King
The more decks, the less time that will be spent breaking the deck and shuffling.
Bull! A competent dealer (not enough of those left any more, admittedly) can shuffle one deck FAST. With all the complicated procedures casinos put in place, and all of the heavy stacks of cards to move around, shuffling six decks typically takes MUCH more than six times as long.
Originally Posted by
Ace-King
Hand Shuffle or ASM - ASM games save a lot of the shuffle time, and as a result the level of penetration does not factor as much (for speed) on an ASM game.
True for a shoe game. Not necessarily true for a single deck game. ASMs can actually take longer for a single deck game, if the casino adds a lot of redundant procedures before putting the deck into a machine that management paid tens of thousands of dollars for, but doesn't trust. The worst would be a certain large, well-known casino that will go nameless that does a big wash before shuffling in EVERY hand-dealt game.
Originally Posted by
Ace-King
Face down, or face up -In a face down game, some players won't even really look at their hand until it is their turn to make a decision. The player's involvement with their own cards can significantly slow down the game.
Yeah, but dealing a game face up is quite a bit slower than dealing it face down.
Originally Posted by
Ace-King
Pitch or shoe - A dealer can deal faster from a shoe compared to the mid-air pitch.
Again, bull! A competent dealer can pitch MUCH faster than he can deal from a shoe. Dealing to five spots should take about 2 1/2 seconds.
Some of the events that bring a game to a dead halt are changing dealers, fills, changing cards, making change, coloring up, changing out the drop box and counting the rack, and dealing with errors. How the casino handles these events has a huge impact on game speed. For a shoe game, does the casino break the shoe if the table goes dead, or leave the rest of the pack in the shoe? Or pre-shuffle the pack, and put it in the shoe when opening a new table?
Apart from those events, one can sum it up by saying that game speed depends considerably on the skills and habits of the individual dealer, and on the behavior of the players on the table.
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