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Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove
It is difficult to get people out of the concrete notion of thinking of a deck as being made of specific cards in a specific order, and getting them to understand that all unknown cards are effectively equivalent.
I made this mistake exactly one time and I won't make it again. I don't play blackjack but I was sweating a friend who was playing and the normal conversation comes up about taking the dealers bust card.
I chime in (even though I know I shouldn't) and say that the last player took a random ****ing card and what the dealer got was a random ****ing card.
To my surprise the player in question replied that it wasn't a random card it was the next card on top of the deck, they don't just pull one randomly out of the middle, ******* (high fives his buddy in celebration of his owning me in the exchange).
I had no reply and will not get involved in that conversation again.......