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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1739166, member: 23910"] ROFL - overreaction much?!? If you performed your job perfectly every day of the year then made one small mistake one day and your boss fired you for it you'd be screaming blue murder and rightly so. Get some perspective. We're talking about dealing poker here, not flying a commercial airliner or anything. Also we've established that this was clearly a brainfart on the part of the dealer. Making dealers verbally confirm that a player [B]really[/B] wants to fold every time they think that might be the case wouldn't have helped in this situation. It [I]would[/I] succeed in slowing every other hand down unnecessarily though. I don't know how common that is - AFAIK my local casino doesn't sell them. In a lot of ways it's a moot point though because just about any object can be used as a card protector. Availability isn't the problem, and it's not like OP's problem would have been avoided if only someone had tried to sell him a card protector on the way in the card room door. I guarantee he probably had several items on his person he could have used as a card protector. Just think for a moment too about a card room where it's [I]mandatory[/I] for players to use a card protector. Live poker games already get precious few hands per hour, how many more would be lost to the time it would take to have the dealer ensure that every player uses their card protector on every hand? Would the action be expected to stop every time someone was sitting with an unprotected hand? As with the suggestion above it would create many more problems than it would solve. To sum up the whole issue: - We only hear about occurences like this very rarely, despite the sheer number of hands of live poker that get dealt every year and the frequency with which people seem to feel the need to get on the internet and complain when it [I]does[/I] happen. We can therefore surmise that occurences like this [B]are[/B] rare and very much the exception to the rule. - The existing rules are effective. If players don't protect their cards they do so at their own risk and every time something like this comes up the response will always be "it wouldn't have happened if you had have protected your hand". Protect your hands and we need never have this discussion again. - All the "solutions" people are coming up with cause a heap more problems than they solve if you stop to think about them for a second. [/QUOTE]

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