[R Deckard]

Originally Posted by boondocker96

Any tips on how to 'casino shuffle'? I bridge my decks but tend to expose cards and want to cut down on that.
plus its a cooler more professional technique.

Bridging, IMO, is only necessary when using paper cards to counteract the up-curve that shuffling causes. But I know you do not use paper cards!

So here we go, shuffling, R Deckard-style (I'm left-handed, so adjust if you're one of the unwashed masses of dexters):

1. After the scramble, start out with the deck in front of you like this:
   
   
2. Split the deck into two equal piles and place them on the table at about right angles to each other, corners touching:
   
   
3. With thumbs about an inch or so from the corners, index fingers on the backs, and the rest of you digits along the opposite side, bend the sides and corners up while simultaneously "scooting-in" the two piles a bit closer to each other:
   
   
4. Begin riffling, i.e. slowly running your thumbs up the sides of the cards, allowing alternate cards from each pile to fall onto each other:
   
   
5. When done, you should have both piles evenly (more or less, too perfect is actually no good!) interleaved at the corners:
   
   
6. Slide the two piles together and square up the deck:
   
   
7. After another riffle shuffle like this, you are ready to "box" the cards, aka "strip shuffle" or "running cuts". This is a critical part of shuffling, since it breaks up the "algorithm" of a perfect riffle shuffle (which can produce the same sequence of cards in eight iterations). Pick the whole deck straight up, grab a block (about a fifth) of the top of the cards in your other hand, and pull the rest of the deck away:
   
   
8. Place the block straight down on the table, bring the deck back over them, grab another block of cards from the deck, pull the rest of the deck away, and place that block on top of the previous block. Repeat until the whole deck is down:
   
   (here's a decent description of this technique with a video)
   
9. Riffle twice more, box once more, riffle one more time. Then slide the cut card in front of the deck, while simultaneously grabbing the top half of the deck, place the top half onto the cut card, and complete the cut:
   
   
10. You are now ready to deal your bad beats!