Pennsylvania Code › Title 58 - RECREATION › Part VII - GAMING CONTROL BOARD › Subpart K - Table Games › Chapter 681a - 21 BACCARAT › Section 681a.5 - Shuffle and cut of the cards

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
				  Immediately prior to commencement of play, unless the cards were preshuffled in
				  accordance with §
										603a.16(u) or (v)
				  (relating to cards; receipt, storage, inspection and removal from use), after
				  each shoe of cards is dealt or when directed by a floorperson or above, the
				  dealer shall shuffle the cards, either manually or by use of an automated card
				  shuffling device, so that the cards are randomly intermixed. Upon completion of
				  the shuffle, the dealer or device shall place the decks of cards in a single
				  stack. The certificate holder may use an automated card shuffling device which,
				  upon completion of the shuffling of the cards, inserts the stack of cards
				  directly into a dealing shoe.
(b)
				  After the cards have been shuffled, the dealer shall offer the stack of cards,
				  with the backs facing away from the dealer, to the players to be cut. The
				  dealer shall begin with the player seated in the highest number position at the
				  table and, working clockwise around the table, offer the stack to each player
				  until a player accepts the cut. If a player does not accept the cut, the dealer
				  shall cut the cards.
(c) The cards
				  shall be cut by placing a cover card in the stack at least ten cards in from
				  the top or the bottom of the stack.
(d) Once the cover card has been inserted
				  into the stack, the dealer shall take all cards above the cover card and the
				  cover card and place them on the bottom of the stack. The dealer shall then
				  insert the second cover card in a position at least ten cards above the bottom
				  of the stack.
(e) After the cards
				  have been cut and before the cards have been placed in the dealing shoe, a
				  floorperson or above may require the cards to be reshuffled or recut if the
				  floorperson or above determines that the shuffle or cut was performed
				  improperly or in any way that might affect the integrity or fairness of the
				  game.
(f) A reshuffle of the cards
				  in the shoe shall take place after the cover card is reached in the shoe and
				  the round of play is completed, as provided in §
										681a.7 (relating to procedure for
				  dealing the cards; completion of each round of play), except that a floorperson
				  may determine that the cards should be reshuffled after any round of
				  play.
(g) If there is no gaming
				  activity at a 21 Baccarat table which is open for gaming, the cards shall be
				  removed from the dealing shoe and the discard rack and spread out on the table
				  face down unless a player requests that the cards be spread face up on the
				  table. After the first player arriving at the table is afforded an opportunity
				  to visually inspect the cards, the cards shall be:
(1) Mixed thoroughly by a washing of the
				  cards, stacked, then shuffled and cut in accordance with this section if there
				  is no automated shuffling device in use.
(2) Stacked and placed into the automated
				  shuffling device to be shuffled if an automated shuffling device is in use. The
				  batch of cards already in the shuffler shall then be removed. Unless a player
				  requests otherwise, the batch of cards removed from the shuffler does not need
				  to be spread for inspection and reshuffled prior to being dealt provided that
				  the automated card shuffling device stores a single batch of shuffled cards
				  inside the shuffler in a secure manner.