Product Description This 6 deck shuffler is great for blackjack and useful for many other card games. It operates on batteries (not included). Especially appreciated by people that have trouble shuffling by hand. Cards are not included
Saves your fingersSeptember 30, 2008 So far it is working fine and we are enjoying it. Thanks. Would recommend it to anyone.
Did not workSeptember 19, 2008 Unfortunatley for us we throw away the box before we checked to see if the product was working. Only one side of it works so it doesn't shuffle correctly. Make sure you check that it works before we recycle the box.
6 Deck Card ShufflerSeptember 5, 2008 This is a great value and really works well when needing to shuffle 4 to 6 decks of cards. Helps keep the cards from getting dog eared and is very easy to operate.
A Happy SupriseJuly 24, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We play a lot of hand and foot. The shuffling is hard of the hands. Ordered this shuffler in spite of the mixed reviews and was very suprised. It does a good job, handles the four decks we use very well and is not nearly loud as other smaller machines we have tried.
Good concept, shoddy implementationJuly 22, 2008 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when ordering this. We needed a card shuffler but didn't want to spend mega-bucks on a casino quality shuffler. I decided to order this one because we tend to play a lot of card games that require multiple decks of cards. As soon as we started using it I noticed some problems that made using this an issue in any social setting.
1) It's bulky (I realize it's larger because it holds 6 decks, but it's awkward having on a table with 6 or 7 people around).
2) It's loud (and I mean Loud. As soon as you hold the button, it starts roaring away. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but being that card games tend to be played in a social setting, it became a nuisance)
3) You need to run the cards through multiple times (about 8 or so) to get a good shuffle... once again, I wasn't expecting casino quality, but I would've like the convenience of it doing most of the work for me.
4) The plastic drawer that holds the cards in the center is a flimsy plastic that's held in by flimsy plastic clips. There are also no sides on it, so when you remove the card holder, the cards fall all over (maybe it's by design... an extra shuffle, lol)
Out of all of this, we just end up shuffling the cards by hand during the game. For games like "Apples to Apples" we can run the cards through multiple times after the game's over, but the overall experience doesn't motivate us to pull it out of the closet.
It gets the job done for what I paid, but I'm not sure I'd buy it again knowing what it's like.
