Not good for the game
I have played in many casinos with these and I think they are crap. You actually only get about 4 more hands per hour (by my count)...if they are working properly. When they malfunction, which is often, you lose about 5 minutes while the dealer tries to get the cards out of the machine. Then you lose 5 more minutes while the dealer gets a new set up. A good dealer can easily keep pace or even deal faster than these machines. At some casinos, the dealers are required to shuffle at least once after they retrieve the cards. I usually look for tables that don't have these machines.
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