Does this sound like cheating to you!?!?!

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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Your missing my point was wondering how it prevented cheaters if they knew there were gonna be burn cards.

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Run on sentence and ?????????????

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Guess what, thats why I put it here BECAUSE it is just like the casino's. Captain Obvious strikes again.

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Captain super-doesnt-make-any-sense-whatsoever strikes again.

[www.portal2poker.com]

Why play 5-5. best is to skip them.

[GizmoDogg]

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(extreme run-on sentence truncated) ...damn what a waste of time marking all those cards

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Best.Post.Ever. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[2planka]

This is a classic.

[ScottTheFish]

Here's a gem you guys will like: In a home game I play several of the guys will burn, lay out the flop, burn, lay the turn face down, burn, lay the river face down.

So when they deal the flop, they just deal all 5 cards, with the turn and river face down. I'm confident there are no cheats in our game, but geez that would be card marker's paradise.

When I ask them what's the point of burning a card when you're going to lay the next card out on the table, they kind of give me a funny look and do it the same way the next time. Dumb.

[Jaquen H'gar]

This happened with several dealers last week in my first visit to a new home game. I kept my mouth shut but only because I didn't want to rub anybody wrong and I didn't want to look like I knew what I was talking about. Otherwise, it irritated me as what's the point?

[SheridanCat]

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Why do we deal to a player who steps away from the table for a hand or two? I know that when He/She is up to act the cards are mucked but I could not explain why we had to still deal to the seat?


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During an infrequent appearance of mine at an NL cash game a short while ago, I noticed that at least a couple of players would routinely deal cards to an empty seat if someone was away from the table. When it was my deal and I refused to deal cards to an empty seat when the player had just gotten up to go to the bathroom, two of the others became agitated. Although they couldn't verbalize why they were upset when I asked, I realize now it was because they must have thought I had somehow disrupted the karmic distribution of the cards.

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If you did this in my game, you would be asked to leave and probably not invited back. We deal to the empty seat so that the missing player can play his hand if he returns to the game before action gets to him. If he's not back, the hand is killed.

Simple enough. Why wouldn't you deal to that player? Mess up the karmic distribution of the cards? Why do people not believe the cards are random and worry so much about might have beens.

Regards,

T

[chesspain]

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During an infrequent appearance of mine at an NL cash game a short while ago, I noticed that at least a couple of players would routinely deal cards to an empty seat if someone was away from the table. When it was my deal and I refused to deal cards to an empty seat when the player had just gotten up to go to the bathroom, two of the others became agitated. Although they couldn't verbalize why they were upset when I asked, I realize now it was because they must have thought I had somehow disrupted the karmic distribution of the cards.

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If you did this in my game, you would be asked to leave and probably not invited back. We deal to the empty seat so that the missing player can play his hand if he returns to the game before action gets to him. If he's not back, the hand is killed. Simple enough. Why wouldn't you deal to that player?


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Simple enough? Why would I deal cards to someone who is walking down the hall to go to the bathroom, when I know he won't be back in time to play his cards in a six-handed game. I know the cards are random; it sounds like the others in this game did not believe that. Are you saying that someone who refused to deal cards to an empty chair wouldn't be invited back because all of the fish got their gills in an uproar. Maybe when I start seeing players in online cash games getting dealt cards despite sitting out I'll consider dealing to an empty seat being anything other than stupid.

[Spook]

The fact is that sometimes players do make it back to play their hands and they have been paying the blinds when they should.
Think of it another way. Is it worse to have to deal and kill a hand, or to not deal a hand and leave someone out when they have paid the blinds for the round?
I think it would be to deal someone out who is paying their blinds when they aren't in the blinds and are away from the table for a minute.
So then is it worse to deal and kill two hands than to have a player dealt out? Three hands?
Where is the limit. Four hands?

Is it better to let 40 guilty men go free if it prevents an innocent man from going to jail?

[GMan42]

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