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Originally Posted by TheDonkeyFish
Isn't there really no point in burning cards while dealing live assuming that the deck was properly shuffled?
The idea behind burning, as I understand it, is twofold:
(1) It's more difficult to deal thirds than seconds.
(2) The card backs come to have little indentations on them. Someone with really good eyesight might be able to tell what the next card to be dealt is, based on reading those little indentations.
But if the top card is burned, then anyone who can read the little indentations will not be able to read the card beneath the top card... the card that is to be dealt next.
Thus the dealer burns the top card (1) to cut down on the possibility of cheating by dealing seconds and (2) to make it more difficult to read the back of the next card to be dealt. As I understand it, that's the idea, anyhow.
Buzz