Wash, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, cut, don’t forget the deck guard, go. Two months before you were sending cards flying over the table rails in curlicues, now you’re tossing them with pinpoint accuracy. Your dealing improves, as your hands learn the curt yet unhurried, almost lazy rhythm of high-throughput dealing. You get to where you can cut three, five, eight chips from a stack in one clean motion. You get to where you can eyeball a stack of chips and tell it’s one chip short of twenty. Two minutes to gently coax a table of beer-drinking adults through four rounds of betting, keeping your sanity in the midst of two and three-way all-ins, split pots and side pots, pot bets and string bets, kills, half-kills, straddles, and other inventions of bored-out-of-their-mind poker players.Īfter a while, it becomes automatic. Two minutes to wash, shuffle, cut the cards, deal them out in two concentric rings. ![]() ![]() Thirty hands an hour, or roughly one hand every two minutes, like clockwork. When you’re dealing a real-money game of No Limit Texas Hold’em, that’s what you’re shooting for.
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