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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1478105, member: 23910"] It's pretty much all been said above - burning cards in a live game should be standard and it has absolutely zero effect on your likelihood of catching a card because, as d'wilius points out, an unseen card is an unseen card whether it's burned or at the bottom of the deck stub. Every single game you've ever seen televised will use burn cards. A lot of telecasts will be edited in such a way that you don't usually see the dealer burning the card (because showing it would just be dead time and a broadcast is only so long), but I promise you it's being done. Typically the burn cards are placed under or next to the main pot so even if you don't see them being burned, you'll see them if the camera pans across the pot. I'm checking a first three bits of live poker broadcasting I come across now just to be sure: - Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge, episode 1: card burning process clearly shown - High Stakes Poker, season 6 episode 12: burn cards clearly visible under the main pot - 2010 PCA High Rollers event part 1: burn cards clearly visible under the main pot As has been pointed out above, you burn cards to protect against marked cards in the deck. The back of the top card in the deck is clearly visible so if it's marked in some way it's possible that a player can know what card is going to come out next. Burning it ensures that a player can't know what's coming next on the board. It doesn't 100% eliminate the problems associated with marked cards but it certainly reduces them and because of this all games should use burn cards. Don't think card marking is a common practice? I'll leave you with this to chew on: at least one deck had to be removed from the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE event because it had been marked by a player. [/QUOTE]

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