There were a lot of practical attacks on poker PRNGs without enough internal state, where one could form a database of possible hands based on the first few cards.
I think the bare minimum requirement for a good shuffler is "all hands are possible." And then getting some more bits beyond that is good to debias it.
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There were a lot of practical attacks on poker PRNGs without enough internal state, where one could form a database of possible hands based on the first few cards.
I think the bare minimum requirement for a good shuffler is "all hands are possible." And then getting some more bits beyond that is good to debias it.