Fundraising Black Jack Questions:

Re: Fundraising Black Jack Questions:

feeds@yuku.com (stephkg84) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:36:54 GMT

Before I became a dealer last year I went to a fundraiser festival with a gambling tent. The volunteers were firefighters. Same set up as far as taking all ties and what not. For the shuffling, all they did was take the shoe cards and give about 2 decks to the other players at the table other than the one with the cut card. They do the shuffling. then the "dealer" would then have the cards taken back at random (say 3 people were shuffling) like 1/2 from each pile. shuffle and...

Re: Fundraising Black Jack Questions:

feeds@yuku.com (Riva1) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:09:32 GMT

Currently, we provide our dealers at the tables with a 6-deck stack of pre-shuffled cards wrapped with rubber bands and put into one of those zip-lock freezer bags. When a table goes through a shoe, the dealers simply graps a new freezer bag containing th (shuffled) 6-deck stack, has a player cut the stack, and then puts the cards in the shoe. This process takes about 5-minues start to finish.

I then take the used stack and bring them back to a table where we have 2 heavy-duty...

Re: Fundraising Black Jack Questions:

feeds@yuku.com (Psand) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:41:05 GMT

I'm not superstitious, but i am suspicious and I would never feel comfortable playing in that environment if the deck wasn't being shuffled at the table in front of me.

If your tables are big enough though maybe you could have a second shoe at the table with a volunteer shuffling it at the table during the play of the other hands, so the dealer deals from the red shoe, another volunteer is at the table shuffling the blue shoe. (I know this takes some table space so it may...

Re: Fundraising Black Jack Questions:

feeds@yuku.com (PiercedMoonyMom) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:03:37 GMT

Using fewer decks cuts down your house edge, but if you're not worried about that that would be one solution. On the other hand-are your tables set up in a 'pit' arrangement? What about setting up a table in the middle where the volunteers can shuffle the decks in the sight of everyone? They wouldn't be specifically in the sight of the table that would receive them but anyone can watch and make sure the shoes aren't stacked. As for the cut, a shoe's worth of cards...

Fundraising Black Jack Questions:

feeds@yuku.com (Riva1) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:44:55 GMT

In another forum, I mentioned that I am a volunteer coordinator for a non-profit school that has frequent Vegas Parties to raise money for the school. It is risk gaming which means players can, and often do, win cash (and not silly prizes at the end of the night). It's all licensed and on the up and up however, there are some rules in each game that tilt the games in the house favor. In blackjack, one of those rules is that the house takes all ties (except a blackjack, which is a push)....