If you are asking why all tables used in the WSOP don't have shufflers, I turn to the obvious answer, it's too expensive. For the Main Event, the Rio is at maximum capacity on some days. I believe Day 1C had over 4000 runners, Day 3 likely had even more. The number of shuffle machines required for these two days out of the year cannot be justified when they are not needed 363 days of the year. Especially on temporary tables that need to be moved a lot. These tables must be as light and portable as possible while being robust and "nice" enough to handle a world class event. Adding a multi thousand dollar shuffler to the table is not only impractical, it borders on the impossible. I have played in card rooms where the folding poker tables come out when too many people show up. At Playground Poker in Montreal, the cash tables have shufflers, but I think only a small percentage of the tourney tables have them (probably cash tables that have been lent to a large event).Why dealers on WSOP don’t use card shuffler and shuffle cards by hand?
If you are asking why all tables used in the WSOP don't have shufflers, I turn to the obvious answer, it's too expensive. For the Main Event, the Rio is at maximum capacity on some days. I believe Day 1C had over 4000 runners, Day 3 likely had even more. The number of shuffle machines required for these two days out of the year cannot be justified when they are not needed 363 days of the year. Especially on temporary tables that need to be moved a lot. These tables must be as light and portable as possible while being robust and "nice" enough to handle a world class event. Adding a multi thousand dollar shuffler to the table is not only impractical, it borders on the impossible. I have played in card rooms where the folding poker tables come out when too many people show up. At Playground Poker in Montreal, the cash tables have shufflers, but I think only a small percentage of the tourney tables have them (probably cash tables that have been lent to a large event).
I prefer having a dealer hand shuffle instead of using a machine. I think that any machine can be "rigged," but a machine doesn't keep me from playing.
Is WSOP unlike online poker in the sense that if you take a break you are just not dealt to at all, where online cards are delt to the player and in an automatic check/fold state?Yes, it CAN be rigged but why it would be? How they can know in advance that a seat number will be their target before hand? Also, there are too many variations when you deal with human. If e.g. someone gets up to use the restroom, the machine can't realize that and it will be "rigged" against the target player.
Is WSOP unlike online poker in the sense that if you take a break you are just not dealt to at all, where online cards are delt to the player and in an automatic check/fold state?
If you are asking why all tables used in the WSOP don't have shufflers, I turn to the obvious answer, it's too expensive. For the Main Event, the Rio is at maximum capacity on some days. I believe Day 1C had over 4000 runners, Day 3 likely had even more. The number of shuffle machines required for these two days out of the year cannot be justified when they are not needed 363 days of the year. Especially on temporary tables that need to be moved a lot. These tables must be as light and portable as possible while being robust and "nice" enough to handle a world class event. Adding a multi thousand dollar shuffler to the table is not only impractical, it borders on the impossible. I have played in card rooms where the folding poker tables come out when too many people show up. At Playground Poker in Montreal, the cash tables have shufflers, but I think only a small percentage of the tourney tables have them (probably cash tables that have been lent to a large event).