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Originally Posted by smoothcriminal99
Just always read the cards like “king jack” instead of pair of kings and I think it’s perfect.
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Originally Posted by smoothcriminal99
Actually you don’t it technically violates optah and causes lots of issues. Player tables a flush but other player thinks it’s a pair until you yell out flush. Now he realizes he has a flush too and tables his hand instead of mucking..... you can’t incentive a player to table a hand even as a dealer. What if you announce the wrong rank and player mucks a winning hand?
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Originally Posted by monikrazy
So for Omaha specifically the dealer should announce the rank (hi) but never the lo if its hi/lo
Wrong.
So what exactly should the dealer do after all the hands are tabled since he cannot announce the low? Should he just push the pot to the high hand? Is he only allowed to announce it once all hands are tabled? should he silently push the best low hand his half of the pot and muck the rest? Yeah, no one would have a problem with that?
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Originally Posted by ninefingershuffle
A dealer shouldn’t read the hands until at least two hands have been tabled. If just one is tabled, that’s the winner and no need to say what hand he has. Immediately announcing the hand gives away a bluff - it is the responsibility of the other player in the hand to table his hand if he wants to win.
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I'd rather not comment in this specific case as I don't play Omaha.
For NLH, I meant just that, the cards are face up, dealers don't usually announce unless prompted to, in which case they should. I don't think players should announce the hands though, especially when they aren't in the hand.
Some dealers don't, but don't let that fool you into believing that they shouldn't. Those dealers are doing it wrong.
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Originally Posted by deuce24off
You should never announce to the players that there is a low.
Correct. You should never say "there is a low possible".
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Originally Posted by deuce24off
You may bring attention to something that a player may not have been aware of. It is perfectly OK to announce their high, but with the low you should not say what low they have unless the other player asks what is their low.
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Originally Posted by ninefingershuffle
In this case, two players have tabled a hand. Desker says flush and pushes the pot to the player with the best hand. What’s the issue?
My only point is that a dealer should not annouce a hand when only one player has shown. I’m reading hands is part of the game - either fold or show your hand.
Wrong.
So we all sit and wait while each player stares at the tabled hand trying to decide if they can beat it or not before deciding to show or muck? Yeah, that won't slow the game down a bit.
I'm with quad, I can't believe where this thread has gone. Everywhere in the world the dealer should be reading the hands as they are tabled. If they are not, then they are doing it wrong or that particular room has trained them wrong. Either way, it's still wrong.
Now, a dealer doesn't need to read every tabled hand. If the first player tables a straight and the next 4 players all table inferior hands, then the dealer doesn't need to say anything. They can just muck the losers and move on.