Following several years of research and development, Lou DeGregorio, president of Shark Trap Gaming & Security Systems, announced his company’s status and ongoing development of a revolutionary table-game security system that features networked “Super Shufflers.” According to DeGregorio, a “A Super Shuffler,” simply defined, is an automatic casino shuffler with extraordinary capabilities.”
“Each year the casino industry sees scores of so-called revolutionary gaming products, although the truth is that most of these products fall far short of the hype,” says DeGregorio. “We believe, however, the Shark Trap system will transcend game protection to heights never even considered, and that’s just the beginning.”
DeGregorio points out just a few of the system’s advantages over current shufflers:
• System attributes such as no-flash dealing modules, (stops unintentional dealer hole cards), automatic rake-slides’ (poker), and no-batch shuffling formats; two decks or two sets of decks are no longer needed to be used in rotations, which can cut card costs in half
• One-deck shufflers that sit in the palm of your hand
• Shufflers that allow operators to safely deal the most efficient games, eliminating the need for pre-shuffling, washing/scrambling, turning half the deck(s), and other time-consuming, costly procedures
• Eight-deck, no-batch baccarat shufflers that only need 10 seconds from the beginning of the shuffle to the deal of the first card—the fastest ever developed
• Automatically detecting and quantifying all forms of manufacturing asymmetries, a problem that exists all over the world with experts estimating that 50 percent-70 percent of all casino cards exhibit some form of discernable asymmetry
• Unobtrusively monitoring normal card wear, and informing personnel when it’s scientifically warranted to change deck(s), completely overhauling the traditional deck-changing philosophy and saving casinos millions
“Finally, imagine shufflers with the high-tech capability to detect all forms of marked cards in real time,” says DeGregorio. “For example, our shufflers will detect daubers even before they have time to act on the information, assess whether the dauber is a professional or amateur, identify whether more than one cheater is marking the cards, and determine if the same daub has been played before, is being played on another table, in another casino, or even in another state or country. Only Shark Trap’s Super Shufflers can accomplish these goals.”
“We’re in the process of finalizing our agreements for the final development and manufacture of our initial run of shufflers with one of America’s premier development and manufacturing companies,” DeGregorio continues. “Shark Trap believes that when the word gets out about our platform’s technical sophistication, scientific capability, and amazing analytical prowess.”
Through extensive marketing via websites, lectures, consultants, conferences, sales calls and more—the mere presence of the platform’s logo on shufflers will stop advantage players and cheaters dead in their tracks.
“How do you determine the value of a truly invaluable deterrent factor?” asks DeGregorio.
“Even at this early juncture, the response from the casino and poker-room industries has been overwhelming—with over 1,000 handshake pre-orders in California and other jurisdictions,” says DeGregorio. “We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the rapidly growing list of cardrooms, casinos, and casino conglomerates throughout the country who have offered to field-test and place our products. The good news is that we’ve recently finalized everything needed to move forward on all fronts.
“We fully expect to showcase some of Shark Trap’s preproduction Super Shuffler models, along with our ground-breaking detection technology in October at G2E. The expectation is that we’ll be able to fill orders for shufflers in late 2017, and we’ll continue to advance our proprietary Shark Trap technology in ways that will unquestionably change the way casinos operate and protect table games.”
