Now you can bring home a piece of the casino with a 4-deck blackjack dealer shoe! These gaming devices are often found in casinos across the world, used to hold and deal multiple decks of playing cards. Dealer shoes greatly increase the speed of games, reducing the time between shuffles, making it quick and simple to setup another game as soon as the first game ends. They're also known for keeping the chances of dealer cheating significantly lower than from the traditional dealing of cards. This dealer shoe holds four decks of cards at once, perfect for blackjack. It lowers the opportunity for card counting as well.
A Brief History of the Dealer Shoe
In 1961 in Las Vegas, all blackjack had been dealt with one deck. Shortly afterward, this dealer shoe was invented and even had a chance t o be a state rule to be used but was never put into place. Most casinos of today use a multi-deck blackjack shoe is now the standard. The way it gets it's name is that early versions looked like a high-heel shoe.
