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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2611324, member: 23910"]
In relation to casinos and online games (not home / self-dealt games) the answers are:

1: no
2: no
3: no

As others have said it's standard in home / self dealt games where the dealer is also a player, as a security measure.

But when the dealer is an impartial employee of the casino, not a player, there's no need for this.  Allowing players to cut the cards would actually [i]introduce[/i] the potential for cheating or card marking, not reduce it.  It would also slow the game down.  So no, no reputable casino anywhere will let you do that.  It'd be akin to wanting to get behind the table and deal your own blackjack hands or spin your own roulette ball.

I think there was an online site somewhere once that allowed you to "cut" the deck, but it was a pure gimmick.  The purpose of the shuffle in a live game is to deliver a randomised deck of cards for the hand.  The cut is just one part of that shuffle procedure.  Online there's no need for a cut (or a strip, or a riffle, or any other part of the manual shuffling process) because an RNG just delivers a random deck.

Some sites don't even have the deck in a set order at the start of each hand - they instead use what's called a "continuous shuffle" where the next card out is just selected at random from the remaining available cards at the second it's needed.
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