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Originally Posted by 6bet me
What can I do when the dealer is this incompetent? And what do I do when I think I can see someone's card flick up, but I'm not 100% sure what the card is?
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Originally Posted by psandman
Talk to the floor away from the table.
"Dealer that card flashed"
Yep and yep. Aside: Many Seattle-area floors will ask you, "So what card did you see?" I usually say "Black spot card" or whatever, but this is silly of them.
First, if the card flashed to someone else, I may have seen only the back. Still, I saw it flash.
Second, it's hard for me to angle as long you commit to replace the card regardless of what I say. But it's easy to angle (at least once) if you make me describe the card and only replace it if I'm close to right . "Optimal" angling (in most games) is to say, "red ace" or perhaps a spot card like a 2 or 3 in 2-7 lowball.
(Not advocating angling, so optimal is in quotes.)
If you just replace the card no questions asked, it's unexploitable. If I claim to have seen an ace, but you really had a lousy card, now you get your card replaced which hurts me. If I really did see an ace then your card really should be replaced. If I claim to have seen a lousy card but you really had an ace, well, it sucks I've taken your ace away but I either didn't know that or I did know that because it flashed. Either way isn't an angle.
There is a way I can cheat, and that's to see a lousy card and keep quiet. But that's all the more reason for dealers to aggressively fix their own errors and for players who didn't see the face to still report it.