High speed hand-forming shuffler

A card handing device for metering play-ready hands of playing cards from a verified card deck directly into an output tray, the card handing device comprising:

• a housing;
• a control panel positioned on the exterior of the housing for programming a game type and a number of players;
• an input portal consisting of a single card receiving cavity for receiving unshuffled cards;
• a first card discharge portal consisting of a card output tray for receiving play-ready substacks;
• a second card discharge portal consisting of a chamber for receiving faulty card decks;
• at least one verification sensor for detecting card deck integrity;
• at least one microcontroller responsive to the control panel and to the at least one verification sensor for controlling movement of the cards;
• one slot-less elevator aligned with an axis of a randomizing chamber and movable along the axis within the randomizing chamber;
• a gripper mechanism located in the randomizing chamber;
• the microcontroller able to discern a fault condition in a first or a second shuffled card deck;
• a metering station for moving shuffled cards from a first verified deck to the card output tray one card at a time;
• the slot-less elevator configured to relocate a first shuffled card deck to either the second discharge portal or the metering station, dependent upon a fault criteria determination of the microcontroller;
• whereupon the metering station moves play-ready substacks from the first verified card deck to the output tray automatically upon removal of the previous substack;
• whereupon the second deck can be undergoing shuffling within the randomizing chamber simultaneously while the first deck is being metered to the output tray;
• whereupon the second deck can be temporarily stored on the slot-less elevator at a buffer position simultaneously while the first deck is being metered to the output tray;
• wherein the second deck is a verified deck;
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• whereupon the first verified deck may be queued at the metering station before the number of players or type of game is resolved.