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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2617964, member: 23910"] Erm... no? Cut cards prevent dealing from the bottom of the deck, and ensure that the bottom card on the deck isn't flashed to the players. That's about it. Both the dealer and the person cutting the cards (if it's someone other than the dealer) have to "handle" the deck. Can you give an example of what else you think the cut card is preventing? There's baccarat for starters - hell, being allowed to squeeze and fondle your cards (and even rip them up after the hand, depending on where / how high you're playing) seems to be the major attraction to the game for some punters. Then there's pai gow poker, some places deal face-down blackjack where the player handles the cards after they're dealt to them, there's no doubt others too. And using a cut card (in those games, or poker) doesn't do anything to prevent card marking, edge sorting (where deck flaws allow it) or any number of other cheating methods. As discussed above, the cut card doesn't solve any of the problems I'm worried about, and I was talking specifically about poker in that instance, where the cheating player would very definitely affect me... *shrugs* Sure I can see how it might make some people feel more in control of their luck or emotions or something. I just don't think that's a good enough reason to slow the game down unnecessarily for us sane and balanced people :p I guess you [i]could[/i] come up with a continuous shuffling machine for poker... it'd mean dealing out of a shoe and it'd also mean you'd never be able to cut the cards like you originally wanted. It'll also never happen because it's solving a "problem" that doesn't actually exist. Continuous shuffling machines exist in blackjack to prevent card counting, something which isn't an issue in poker. Burn cards are there mostly as a protection from marked cards - if there's any kind of mark on the top card on the deck there's a chance some players may know what's going to come on the board, which is why the top card is discarded and the next card down is used. In the event there IS a marked card on top of the deck yes, that means the players in the know are aware of what the next card definitely will NOT be, but no system is perfect and it's at least better than knowing what WILL be on the board. Anyway, my point was that if you don't mind that online poker doesn't have burn cards (because they're redundant) then you also shouldn't mind that online poker doesn't have a cut... because it's redundant. [/QUOTE]

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