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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
what's the difference between "small stakes" and higher stakes? Are you saying the dealers don't give a **** when they're dealing a 2/5 game and throw procedure out the window?
Dealers are humans too. Sometimes they don't know correct procedure, or don't do it routinely so it becomes muscle memory like pitching, moving the button, etc., eventually become. It would say it would be unusual for a (non-beginning) dealer to use correct procedure in some games but not in others depending on stake. They either do it habitually, or they don't. On occasion I might see a very experienced dealer do things different depending on his read of the experience level of the game, but that is a very advanced move.
I had an experienced dealer (and dual rate floor) deal my low/mid stakes O8 game recently. One hand involved a sidepot where both players had the same hand, but all three players tabled at once. She clearly mis-read the hands, and went to kill one of the two sidepot hands (which should have chopped the sidepot).
The system worked as it should have - the player, knowing she knows the procedure and was about to kill his hand as a loser, interjected with a shout, she apologized and thanked him, correctly split the side pot, then quartered them for the main.
Just kidding, of course. She instead yelled at him "I know! Split...uh...I mean...chop the main." She then proceeded to kill one, then both of the sidepot players' hands, then killed the third hand as well, before chopping the side between the first two. Then paused for 5 seconds as she tried to remember what they had so she could figure out what to do with the main pot.
It was very weird. Everyone has a bad day now and then I guess.
Hmm, in retrospect, I'm not exactly sure why I am telling this story here.
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Originally Posted by FWWM
The difference is that they usually don't let noobs deal higher stakes
This is simply not true in most rooms.