Shufflemaster manual and/or programming instructions.

[StatFreak]

With a 35:1 payback.

If you can take 8 numbers off the field... I would sit there all day and play $1000/spot for a guarenteed winner.

Agreed (although I'd play it more conservatively than you ), which is why I doubt that roulette dealers can really control the ball as well as has been suggested. If they could, they would be bringing in colluding "friends" all day long to dump to, and if they were smart, would then take it back from the other rubes at the the table to avoid being short on their shift count. That kind of cheating has happened in the past at card table games like blackjack. Security figures it out eventually. I don't recall hearing any such stories about roulette.

Even without collusion, an aspiring dealer might cheat players by putting the ball in areas of the wheel where there are little or no bets in order to increase the house advantage and look good to his superiors. Would this crap get by the NGC? What about casino security? Talk about a conflict of interest! Do they expose such a cheat and cost their bosses money?

On the other hand, a seasoned dealer with some job security might do the opposite to encourage generous tipping from the winners. Of course, casino security would have no problem busting those guys. 

[danw]

I have a Shuffle Master Ace and a King model.  The Ace is for table games and the King is a continuous 5 deck blackjack shuffler.  I use the Ace on my caribbean stud table.  I couldnt spend all that time and effort to find a progressive table and not have the shuffler...  I looked on ebay for two years before they showed up on there.  When Katrina hit, it wiped out the Grand Casino in MS, and everything they had ended up for sale.  I might be willing to part with one if it helped further my newest obsession... slot machines...   

[reho33]

I would guess that the cost for that shufflemaster unit would be really high (thousands of $). Very cool for home use but impractical.....
With regards to the roulette discussion, there is a system that has been floating around on the internet for years that states that every roulette wheel has a "personality" and that once you record a trial (600 results or more) you can bet based upon that factor and have it be favorable to you most of the time. they explain that casinos know of people doing that so they move wheels from table - to - table to eliminate that (kinda like an ECM for roulette). I really don't know what truth there is to that system, their buy in cost is like 3500 dollars (?).

[danw]

I would guess that the cost for that shufflemaster unit would be really high (thousands of $). Very cool for home use but impractical.....

Well, I own a casino equipment rental company also and charge for use of the machines and they've already paid for themselves a few times over.