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You caused me to lose a bet on this. The brush told me I was wasting my time watching to see who counted the stub, there had been no dealers count the stub. Then you pushed in, so I bet that you would count the stub (I had seen you do it many times in the past). You didn't count the stub.
Was this in a room with an automatic shuffler? I've worked in rooms with them and without them. I never bothered counting the stub on a table with a shuffer at the table, but I did once catch two A
's when I was spreading a deck when I opened a table.
One dealer who I know (and respect) told me that proper procedure is to always count the stub on any table, even if there's a shuffler, but that he's never seen another dealer bother to do it.
In rooms without shufflers, I've been diligent about counting the stub, and I've noticed the same about my coworkers. Twice I've noticed bad decks due to counting the stub down. The first time, 1 card was missing and my eyes lit up. I was downright giddy when I called the floor supervisor over to the table and announced to him that we had a sticky deck. He even blinked a couple times and then repeated to me, "
sticky deck???". And a few players at the table asked me, "What, are the cards harder to shuffle that way?" Good times!
The second time, I counted the deck down, and there were 28 cards in the stub.
Let's see... 8 players dealt in the hand... I dealt a flop... one player made a bet... everyone else folded... okay.... hold on... 28???.... that can't be right!!!. I was so thrown off by my own math that I actually dealt another hand and then counted the entire deck down twice to be sure that there were actually 48 cards in the deck. I've asked around and that's some kind of record, at least among dealers I've spoken to.