[bernie]

Many places ask that you keep your cards on the table for this reason. Once the card goes out of sight of the dealer things can happen. Another problem is other players in the hand might see it while others can't.

It's also kind of hard to drop a card off the table yourself. Really, how hard is it to keep it on the table?

I watched a guy spike his hand trying to table it defiantly and one card caught an edge and cartwheeled off the table. Ruled it dead and his set of Ks lost to a set of Qs. Guy was just a titch steamed. Course he did learn a lesson on how not to table a hand.

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