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Originally Posted by madlex
The dealer is there to run the game smoothly, not to interpret the facial expressions of players and decide if those expressions constitute a rules violation.
Here, I disagree. If there's a conversation about whether or not something is allowed (ie: talking multiway or some other commonly misinterpreted or unenforced rule), and the dealer sits there silently, knowing the correct answer and not saying anything, it's only going to fuel the incorrect party to thinking they're right.
I can understand the dealer not getting involved in fictitious one-off arguments that are bound to never actually occur or become a problem. But to stay silent on an issue like "can you not talk multi way" or "can you keep your big chips in front," is actually a situation where not correcting the incorrect party is going to result in them continuing to act the same way because no one is telling them they actually can't.
Granted in your hyperbolic scenario, then yeah, fair enough. But yeah I see why dealers are hesitant to "choose sides" in disagreements like this. I'm just not sure at what point it actually becomes their obligation to correct someone.
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Originally Posted by WereBeer
So unless I think it's causing damage to the game or affecting my bottom line in some way, this is all water off a duck's back to me.
Yeah true, should probably be more tolerable of guys contributing $ to the game if they're not egregiously doing anything outside of the rules. For whatever reason the talking about how skeptical you are of a play while another is left to act really erks me