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Will the non-online players adapt? I play only live now.

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I think most will, but not all. I for one would miss handling real chips, but I adapted well enough when I started playing online.

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There are hordes of players who ask for set-ups and blame the dealer for everything that happens to them. They even throw the cards at the dealer. They smash their chips onto the table. I don't read the internet forum on this forum but on RGP there are 'online is rigged' posts every day. I can just imagine what will happen in B&M play when the bad players keep getting beat. They are going to blame the computer. They will get suspicious that the winners are working for the house and that they are being robbed blind. They can't see the cards being shuffled and dealt and there will be those conspiracy minded people who can never be convince otherwise who aren't going to like it.

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This is all correct, of course, but you will have people that think this way no matter how the game is spread. To them, it's always someone else's fault that they're losing... as I dealer I get complaints about 'dealing bad cards' constantly. If there is no dealer to blame, as is the case with online poker, then the site must be rigged. Besides that, there's always collusion and cheating as a trusty fall-back option too.

There's just no solution to this problem, but that's fine. Let them be paranoid and complain. For all of their bitching, they keep coming back to the casino week after week just the same.

I mean seriously, you can shuffle right in front of them, and they'll watch you, and they STILL think something's up. It's like when you spin the ball in roulette they tell us not to look in the wheel, so players don't think we're cheating them (as if somehow I can aim for a certain number, lol).