I'm fairly new to shuffle-tracking. Is this a trackable shuffle?
1. 6-deck shoe
2. Dealer takes remaining cards (about 1/5-1/4 of deck) and divides it into three sections, placing each section into seemingly random spots (inconsistent each time) within larger stack of played cards, ending up with one pile.
3. Dealer then divides pile into 4 roughly equal-sized stacks (1,2,3,4).
4. Dealer than takes part of stack 1 (about half) and part of stack 3 and shuffles them together a few times, placing on new pile. Dealer does the same with stack 2 and 4. This is repeated. (What if instead this was repeated 3 times, with 1/4 taken from each stack?)
5. Dealer asks player to cut the deck.
It seems that step 2 really messes things up.
How about this one:
1. Dealer inserts full amount of remaining cards in middle of played cards (not exact).
2. Dealer divides 6-deck stack into 4 sections.
3. Dealer takes roughly 1/4 (although carelessly inexact) from each section and shuffles them together a few times. This is repeated 3 more times.
It seems in this case one would have to keep track of 16 different counts, and because the sections for each count are so small (1/16 of 312 cards = 19-20 cards per section) and the dealer is very inexact, it wouldn't yield much of an advantage, if any.
