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Quick blackjack report from Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino

Well, if you didn't think anyone would play blackjack at $25 a hand, you needed to be at the Hard Rock Sunday night. People posed like vultures over tables.

No seats around -- well, one $100 seat in the high limit room opened up around 9 p.m. I'll link to my own story later this morning.

The casino's mushy response to questions about continuous shuffling machines was answered. There were 20 CSMs, and 35 hand-shuffled tables. Some players don't like CSMs because you play with a fresh deck each time -- meaning if there's a bunch of low cards burned off in the hand, there would be no greater chance for high cards the next one. Personally, I'm not that card-aware, so it doesn't matter.

Curious to see if players will now flock to the Hard Rock because it's the happening place, even more so, or will they stay away, in the immortal words of Yogi Berra: "No wonder no one comes here, it's too crowded."

What's your game plan?

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Nick, Hard Rock was so crowded last night, I had a hard time checking out all the tables, but I thought there were shufflers on all the tables. You saw 35 tables without Shufflemaster shufflers?
Thanks.

Actually, the $25 minimum bet was first instituted in Atlantic City in the 1980s, so I don't see why it's a shock to Floridians of the new Millennium.
I'm glad to see players are avoiding the continuous shuffling machines, an innovation that was introduced after books like Cutting Edge Blackjack introduced advantage players to the skill of shuffle tracking. That makes hand-shuffled games so much more profitable.
Why give up that edge to the house?

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