 Two shoes are used, each containing some number of regular card decks that have been stripped down to just the Aces and deuces through sixes.The boxman simply deals one card from each shoe and that is the roll on which bets are settled.Since a card-counting scheme is easily devised to make use of the information of cards that have already been dealt, a relatively small portion (less than 50%) of each shoe is usually dealt in order to protect the house.