OK I was thinking about the penetration that I recieved at different casinos I've been too (I know I know, shut up Bevis). The only place that I can remember is the El Cortez in downtown Vegas. It was a full table of 7 spots dealing 2 hands plus the dealers hand. At 2.7 cards per hand that's 43.2 cards delt or about 83 percent penetration. The one time the count was up to a true of 10 the dealer shuffled up on us, every other time we got two hands out of the deal.
All in all it was fun but there were too many people at the table to take advantage of good situations. My question is how do I accurately determine penetration on the fly? Should I keep an index card in my pocket with some common conversions done out ahead of time? Maybe a table that has number of people at table, number of hands delt and then what kind of penetration is there?
Also if you've played at the el cortez can you get similar penetration when you are alone with the dealer? I'm guessing not but you never know.

