Who Shuffles?

[TenPercenter]

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At my games we use two decks, one red one blue that way they don't get mixed up. The dealer shuffles the deck that they will deal, the person to their right cuts the deck, and the dealer deals. Meanwhile the person to the dealers left is shuffling the deck not in play, the theory is that it will be ready to deal as soon as the current hand is over. Using two decks really helps to keep the game moving along without much dead time.

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This is the general guide we follow, but only because it seems to make sense. It's not like we set down rules about it.

I always play with two decks. I NEVER make a set rule about who shuffles. Whoever wants to shuffle can do it, why not? I am a fast shuffler, so I ususally shuffle most of the time anyway.


I played at a home game a couple of weeks ago, and the rules were STRICT on who shuffles, and it was taking a lot of time and causing confusion trying to get these rules just right. I tried to offer shuffling full time and they were having none of that. These guys also used the Small Blind button and the Big Blind button, which I never found I needed. No one else liked having to shuffle three buttons on every hand.

Ten

[niagarapoker]

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Button deals, gathers cards after hand, shuffles deck thoroughly. Pass the deck, cut card on top, two places to the left (person in between is currently dealer #2 with another deck)

Person who receives the deck (dealer #3) cuts the deck and deals after the current hand is over. In the meantime, dealer #2 gathers old cards, shuffles....

and so on

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This is exactly how our league does it. Thanks for typing it all out so I didn't have to [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[MIKSEN]

exactly what Lottery Larry said is what we do, unless some one is out & decides to become the dealer

[Rams_Law]

Like others, we use two contrasting color decks in rotation. The object of our system is that one person shuffles, another cuts, a third deals. Since the BB is last to act, he shuffles the deck for the next hand. When the current hand is over, current button gathers and passes the used deck to UTG (who will be BB and shuffle next hand). Former BB, now SB, passes the shuffled ("washed") deck to his right, who becomes the button for the next hand. New button/dealer offers the cut to his right, and away we go.

Funny situation happened once; I'm button with the blue deck, after some pre-flop action BB folds to a raise and now has nothing to do and a deck of cards in his hands. Preflop action is done, he beats me to it by burning and turning three reds. Took a beat for the shock to wear off and we laughed it off and were glad to be playing with two very contrasting color decks.

[gmunny]

In our home game the Dealer always washes/shuffles the cards he just dealt. Since we use 2 decks (speeds up play), that means that the current dealer will use the cards that were shuffled by the 2nd player on his right. The cut is offered to the left of the dealer.
G$

[namknils]

Here is how we do it at my weekly game:

The dealer (button) shuffles, passes the deck to the person on his right, who cuts, then the dealer deals the cards. Most of the time the cutter just taps the deck anyway.

It's nice to have a game that you never have to worry about cheating in. I would never accuse anybody in my game of cheating, because I know they wouldn't. Even when we have new people in our game we always know them and there has never been a problem. I'm sure some people will think that it's crazy to never look out for cheating, but to them I would just say 'you don't know the players in my game.'

It's nice.

[RVZFan]

So the dude has to shuffle and play at the same time?

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

Like others, we use two decks. The dealer gathers the cards after the deal and shuffles while the player on his left deals. He then passes the shuffled cards to the player to the current dealer's left, who cuts and deals in turn. Much less down time. I try to get the Moose to play this way, but they refuse. I think they are WAY too enamored of saying, "I can't catch nothing, where's the red deck" to allow a deck change every hand.

[Lottery Larry]

"Funny situation happened once; I'm button with the blue deck, after some pre-flop action BB folds to a raise and now has nothing to do and a deck of cards in his hands. Preflop action is done, he beats me to it by burning and turning three reds. Took a beat for the shock to wear off and we laughed it off and were glad to be playing with two very contrasting color decks"

I have that beat- small NL tournament, flop is 2 spades. One player all-in with red Aces, other with Q5s. Turn and river are dealt, no spades; aces collect the pot. Then the dealer notices that he dealt from the wrong deck for the last two board cards!
After some discussion, the incorrect cards are removed, the proper deck is used.... and the new river card is a spade.

[AwesomeAli]

In the UK we appear to do things a bit differently. I use this method at my own home game which I *stole* from my local casino (whats good for the casino is good for me after all [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]):

Three people are involved in the the shuffle/cut/deal process:

Person to the dealers LEFT shuffles the cards. He then passes them over to the person on the dealers RIGHT, who then cuts them onto the cut card. The dealer then picks up the deck and deals the cards.

In my local casino you are NOT allowed to shuffle and deal in the same hand - even if someone else cuts them before you deal.

First person out at my home game tho, always deals - so that solves any problems [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Ali