need precision about an hold'em rule

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Why are people so paranoid about dealer cheating? Does it really happen that much any more in B&M? In a home game, if you suspect this going on, I doubt it's just in this situation, so you shouldn't play anything.

In the end, it doesn't matter if you burn zero, one, or ten cards.

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It doesn't happen much anymore. One of the reasons it doesn't happen is the old time cheats got poker rooms in the 70s and made procedures to defeat all their old cheating techniques. If you relax procedures you will attract cheats. Whenever I have been involved in writing a procedure I start with the assumption that if there is a way to steal people will do it. The best procedures are ones that make it hard to steal and allow you to show that nobody is stealing.