New way to handle 4 card flops

May 4, 2008 by Rising300.

Ok, so I hear a few Las Vegas rooms adopting a new practice on how to handle 4 card flops, and I kinda like it. We may do it here too in our big strip room.

If a dealer flops out 4 cards, instead of shuffling everything back in and many times getting the nowhere near the same flop, let’s take those 4 cards, give them a good scramble, take the top three, and plop them down as a flop. Then, that last card the dealer has will simply be an exposed burn card. This way there is a good chance that at least 2 of the 3 cards that would have originally come out do come back, and maybe even that would be the original flop.

It makes sense, let’s say a guy has AK, another pair of 9s, flop is all rags, but 4 cards, and then everything is shuffled back in, and AK all the sudden pairs on the “new” flop. I just think this method is more fair.

Opinions?

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