[Hamish McBagpipe]

Casino Rama (hour N. of Toronto) yesterday. Play finishing on a hand when the dealer notices something on one of the flop cards. Blood. A small stain, just a globule really. He says, "Let's see everyone's hands." Guy beside me turns his hands over and there is a tiny incision on one of his fingers. He says he handles paper all day and a small papercut must have reopened. Room boss says they have to shut the table down. "What?!?", I say, "It's not like the guy got shot in the face and there is blood spraying wildly all over the place, or that he's trying to mark the cards with his own blood. Just change the deck." Nope, they have to do some kind of complete sanitary spray and wipe-down of the table because we could sue the casino if we caught a disease or infection and knew that the casino saw that there was blood flowing at the table. They send the guy to the nurses station like some kind of stabbing victim and we change to a free table where they can't get the chip rack open. We change again, the whole thing taking close to an hour. Pain in the ass. And it would have been worse if it wasn't about four in the morning when there was a couple of free tables available for our moves. The guy came back with a miniscule bandage on his finger and sucking a lollipop that they must give out to kids they find abandoned in cars in the parking lot.

Thought I'd share. Anyone see any stoppages in play like this?