Bad Shoe. Can it spell future disaster?

[Gamblor]

Simply putting the cards in repeating low-high order will give the dealer a very significant advantage. No matter how many times you cut the deck, the low-high order will remain. Whether the first card is high or low, does change the degree of advantage, but in either case, the advantage goes to the dealer. Cheaters have more sophisticated ways of stacking the cards. Of course, the same order can occur randomly.

Thanks for the clarification, initially I thought you were saying you can set up a cooler deck that will cause the players to lose EVERY hand no matter what happens at the table - which is I think impossible.

But if your saying a deck can be configured so that its highly favorable/unfavorable to the dealer, that is in all likelihood true.

Also here's another interesting thing from chaos theory that might be relevant. If you knead dough, and put raisins (or spices depending on who gives the examples) into in an initial non-random clump, you would think the these raisins eventually get spread out evenly and "randomly" after a repeating kneading process. But under certain conditions, it does not. Sorry I couldn't find a less cumbersome link on this topic.

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-307