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Originally Posted by DetroitJunkie
2. Only real advantage. Though not much time saved...maybe 5 seconds on average (if as Psand says you dont burn all the time explaining the procedure)
I think it's much more than 5 seconds per hand to deal with antes. The dealer needs to give change to a couple of people per hand (1 second?), has to ask someone to split a larger chip every round or two (2?), has to count up all the small chips each time someone asks for a count (0.5?). Not to mention the bulk of the time involved in looking around the table and collecting the antes - about a half a second per person I'd say.
How many seconds would need to be saved to make it a valid alternative? Maybe the data is already out there - does anyone have the data on how many hands per hour are completed pre and post antes?
If we are saving 10 seconds per hand that's
an extra 10% hands per hour, at an average of 36 hands per hour. I think that's a pretty decent improvement.