Question on Deck set up

[Randy_Refeld]

This happens all the time. Generally they don't let palyers see them put the decks together. Extra cards can get in the deck eitehr from doing a bad job putting the cards together or form palyers asking for set ups. EVeytime a player asks for a set up they run the risk of extra cards being introduced. When the dealer gets teh cards they will spread it before they put it in play. When a player asks for a deck change the delaer will change decks an everything is ususlaly fine, but if they left a card in the well form the old deck it is now mixed with the deck the take out of play. Nothing bad comes from this generally, but when I was delaing about once every 6 months I would encoutner a deck wtih the wrong number of cards; and no I never let the players know there was something wrong with the deck.

[CORed]

Every place I've played live poker (a pretty small sample) alternates red backs and blue backs on deck changes (every hand if shuffling machines are used). This should minimize the chance that a card from the old deck gets mixed in. Is this not done everywhere? If not, Why not?

I know where I play, the card shufflers also count the cards each time to make sure they are all there... Of course you could have five eights and only three aces, but it is a decent safeguard at least.

[detroitplayer]

One of my pet peeves is when dealers wash/shuffle the cards after every hand, only to put them in an auto-shuffler.

Wastes a good 30 seconds per hand which really adds up over a session.

I've always wanted to say something but never have been drunk enough to do it. heh.