Do you use a card protector?

[Action Scott]

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Card protectors are for tight superstitious nits. Just stick a chip on top of your cards.

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uhhh, that is using a card protector

[Ghazban]

I use a chip in limit as I have plenty to spare. In NL, I use a card protector so that I have something left with which to protect my cards when I go all-in.

[rageotones]

if you are not holding the cards with your hand, not at least having a chip on the cards is very ill advised. like someone was saying earlier, people like to get crazy and go throwing cards around and into the muck. if a mucked hand comes across the table and hits your unprotected hand, about 99% of casinos will call your hand dead. maybe you need to lose a big pot before you're convinced, but not me. i myself use a chip from a different casino that won't get confused with the house chips. that way, i don't have to put my card protector in the pot if i go all-in.

[PokerBob]

not using a chip to protect your cards is stupid and asking for trouble. i use a chip from my stack.

[Mackie]

yes, a small brass statue of a chinese dragon.

Twice in tournaments and once in a ring game I've seen people's hands mucked by mistake because they used their last chip to go all-in. Twice in ring games I have seen hands fouled by other people mucking theirs, one of those a hand was killed even though the player had a chip on his cards. IMHO it is in your best intrest to use something other than a chip to protect your cards if that chip can be put into play.

[DayTripping]

I think people are overreacting. There's nothing wrong with card protectors as long as they're not too elaborate or distracting. I've seen strong players use card protectors as well as weak players. Some people just use something that they think is lucky. If it's not negatively effecting you then I don't see what the problem is.

[Force1]

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I was in the 1 seat and the dealer actually told me to put a chip on my cards to protect them.

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I see this happen all the time, the dealer doesn't want to muck your hand just as much as you don't want him to muck your hand. Is this not standard? Is the dealer not supposed to say anything?

[tom10167]

I tell people, half of them don't listen or have absolutely no idea, the other half don't do it anyways(even after they just saw a hand get accidentally mucked.)

Poker players are dumb.

[habsfanca11]

Yes, I use a card protector and like one of the other posters it is a silver dollar in a plastic casing. It's heavy and inobtrusive but creates conversation at a table. People are interested to see what it is. It's saved me at least on one occasion when a particularly ditzy dealer reached to muck my cards. Having that heavy silver dollar slowed her down enough for me recapture my hand before she mucked them. Chips are fine but can also lead to a tell - more chips means a strong hand, less means a weak hand. I prefer to bypass any difficulty with using chips, plus I'm a bit superstitious, plus I really like the look of my silver dollar. Have to agree with many of the thoughts posted - using a chip protector is OK for many reasons.

[theghost]

I use a chip, nothing fancy - voted yes.

Might start using a buttplug to liven things up a bit.