Shuffle tracking is a very advanced way of counting cards that means a player or team of players knows where a sequence of cards is in a shoe and will closely watch the shuffle to ensure they know where they are.

This will work better on a bigger deck being a 6 or 8 Deck shoe as they visually are much easier to track, but casinos have found ways around this element of the game and tracking a shuffle is now much harder to do.

They have now installed automatic card shufflers which ensure the shuffle is 100% random whilst at the same time ensuring it is done in such a way that no one can track where any of the cards are in the shoe!

They can also continously shuffle cards which means any attempt to keep track of any cards in the shoe is virtually impossible.

In basic terms these automatic card shufflers are an electronic box in which the cards are placed, once inside the machine performs several movements which ensures the cards are shuffled correctly and in such away that this shuffle is random.

So you should look at such devices as player friendly as they do not effect the game in any way they just ensure all is legit, fair and honest, which is what you should be demanding from whichever casino you frequent.

So if you do see your playing cards being fed into such a machine then don’t worry there is no skull duggery a foot, it is simply the casino making sure you aren’t up to mischief and all is well with their Blackjack game.