[LuckyTxGuy]

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I am not surprised at all that a "buddy-buddy" dealer wouldn't say anything if he didn't see it because he was busy with his job at hand, that of running a poker game.

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The OP said:

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A few hands later he's still talking about karma, looks at the dealer, and says something like "Tell him the type of bad karma he's getting into." I'm in the 10 seat so I can't see the expression on the dealer's face but I presume the dealer saw it as well, as it was a seat 5/seat 6 transaction directly in front of him.

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He was under the assumption the dealer saw it and he was there at the table I wasn't. I'm going off the OP's story.

As for a "buddy-buddy" dealer letting this slip....it wouldn't surprise me at all by select few dealers. I do not think this is the norm but we've all see the regulars, whom the dealers know by name, get by with things that would get a tourist reprimanded. Sometimes I think the reason nothing is said is not because the dealer doesn't care, but because they are "friends" with the regular and it's alot harder to reprimand a friend than a total stranger. This case is a prime example, it's much more uncomfortable to basically call a friend a thief and tell him to give the chip back, than it is a tourist who'll you'll never see again.

Again, I think this is the exception, not rule. But anyone who has played in enough poker rooms has run across this before.