Let me take a simple hypothetical shuffle - 4 Decks. Dealer deals out 3 and then stacks the remaining deck on top of the discards. Splits the pile into two and does a simple 1 pass shuffle grabbing half decks each time from the two piles before offering the player the cut card.
Now a shuffle tracker who keeps track of the count for each half deck in the discards can pretty accurately predict the count for each deck in the child shoe.
My question is: how do the dealer inaccuracies during shuffle (splitting into two and grabbing half decks) affect it? Do they average out over time or hurt in both cases (over estimation and under estimation)?
Example: if the shuffle tracker has a count of 5 for one of the decks in the shuffled shoe, should he/she bet as if he had a TC of 5 during regular counting or less to account for dealer inaccuracies during shuffle?
Thanks,
Soft17.
