Re: Orchard Street Rumors
All this talk about mechanics are overblown.... there are mechanics in every major card room across the USA. Its a part of the game, good players are hardly affected by it.
1) drop the cut card. Most players wouldn't know the difference.
2) If you are a good player dealing from the bottom of the deck wouldn't affect you much at all, since you only play premium hands. In the worst case scenario it might make you give up your blinds more often, nothing more.
If you want to make sure this doesn't happen in your game, you can do the following:
a) insist that the players shuffle the decks first before the dealer
b) make sure the dealer picks up the cards facing the table. In England the dealers do it with the cards facing themselves, but in the US the standard way is facing the players
There is an interesting side effect of dealing an Ace off the bottom of the deck, the player who is delt the Ace may not have a premium kicker, which means if they are loose enough to ram and jam (they usually are if they are willing to cheat) with A4o then you might have a sucker waiting to be beat.
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