Preferred methods of shuffling?

[blue1245]

My friends and used to use a simplistic battery operated card shuffler, but by the time we added the rest of the decks to our game the shuffler broke down. We've found the best way is to just spread out every card onto the table and just swirl the cards around thoroughly. While this works great for us, we are starting to notice a little extra wear and tear on card edges because of forced card collisions.

As much as I don't like the "shuffle 60 cards multiple times then split decks and shuffle again," to keep the quality of the cards, it is what we've had to revert back to. (Even looked into a fancy 6deck card shuffler but it got real pricey real fast).

I am just curious on other ideas out here maybe?

[waitreally]

Jeff had a rather complex method for shuffling that was the most mathematically fair... I've forgotten what it is at this point but the main mechanic of it was to deal of the card into seven different piles. So now what I do is deal out the deck evenly to all the players playing. Each player deal seven piles, then we combine those piles and one player chooses the starting pile. I like this method because it quickly and easily splits up the weapons/bunnies/dolla from previous games.