Why does the bike require the dealer to ask permission to scramble?

[daveT]

Why does the dealer have to ask this. If button ask for scramble, the dealer must call out to the floor.

I asked this one time and my answer was that the camera wants to know why the cards are bieng shuffled.

Well.. I won't give the obvious answer to THAT one.

But I did a ton of thinking on this and my varigant mind cannot think of any real reason why this is mandatory. Clearly, there is a cheat-prevention thing going on, but what, exaclty?

[driverseati]

Because casinos put into place retarded procedures with no logic behind it whatsoever.

[PLOlover]

pretty sure it's just to inhibit people from asking, in order to speed up the game.

[AngusThermopyle]

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pretty sure it's just to inhibit people from asking, in order to speed up the game.

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And to alert the floor if someone is asking for a scramble every other hand.

[DpFrydHef]

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pretty sure it's just to inhibit people from asking, in order to speed up the game.

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And to alert the floor if someone is asking for a scramble every other hand.

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These are the reasons behind a different rule at the Bike: you may only ask for a scramble when you are on the button.

Why the dealer needs to ask the floorperson before scrambling remains a mystery.

Edit: I suppose the entire table could cooperate and ask for a scramble after every hand, and then the floor should be notified. But such cooperation is so unlikely that I don't think a "get permission from the floor" rule is necessary.

[AngusThermopyle]

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pretty sure it's just to inhibit people from asking, in order to speed up the game.

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And to alert the floor if someone is asking for a scramble every other hand.

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These are the reasons behind a different rule at the Bike: you may only ask for a scramble when you are on the button.

Why the dealer needs to ask the floorperson before scrambling remains a mystery.

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Maybe to make sure the dealer doesn't scramble for someone other than the button?

[AlienBoy]

Lame.


Those DeckMate autoshufflers aren't super bitchin' in randomizing - and often dealers will not scramble new setups - note that flops from a new setup that has not been scrambled but only run through the deckmate once will seem oddly coordinated.

AB

[Rick Nebiolo]

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pretty sure it's just to inhibit people from asking, in order to speed up the game.

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That sounds like a good reason [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick