Designated Cutter

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Canceler

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More often than you would think, the other people at the table want me to cut the cards. Sometimes a person will decline to cut and point at me. At the extreme, the dealer will ask who wants to cut, and everyone at the table will point at me.

I have no idea why this happens, although one guy said he liked to have a happy person cut the cards.

I play with automatic shufflers, and don't know anything about shuffle tracking, anyway.

Does anyone else have this happen to them? Or, from the other angle, if you've ever passed the cut to a particular person, why?
 
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ScottH

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Canceler said:
More often than you would think, the other people at the table want me to cut the cards. Sometimes a person will decline to cut and point at me. At the extreme, the dealer will ask who wants to cut, and everyone at the table will point at me.

I have no idea why this happens, although one guy said he liked to have a happy person cut the cards.

I play with automatic shufflers, and don't know anything about shuffle tracking, anyway.

Does anyone else have this happen to them? Or, from the other angle, if you've ever passed the cut to a particular person, why?
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They probably don't want to be resonsible for a "bad cut". It's purely superstition, it doesn't matter where you cut the cards. There is no such thing as a ''good cutter" or "bad cutter", UNLESS you can shuffletrack...
 
Sonny

Sonny

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One of the cardinal rules of the ploppy kingdom: Always have the lucky guy cut the deck.

Since they’re probably used to seeing you win, you’re the lucky guy. Maybe they can tell that you’re a skilled player so they think that you can “work some magic” on the shoe somehow. Many ploppies are aware that “secret” BJ techniques exist even though they have no idea what they are or how they work. Maybe they heard about the guys from MIT who “could always cut an ace to themselves.” They don’t know how it works, only that they don’t know how to do it and maybe you do.

For whatever reason, they recognize that they don't know what they're doing so giving the cut card to you can only help them. You have become a God in the Ploppy Kingdom!

-Sonny-
 
Automatic Monkey

Automatic Monkey

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When you get the cut card, if you twist it the right way when you insert it you will see what will end up being the last card in the shoe. Add it to your running count. Every little bit helps!
 
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Preston

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I like to cut.

for the reason listed by automatic monkey...

but also because if the shoe is BAD YOU get blamed and NO ONE wants to play with YOU at their table anymore (especially if the first chunk of the shoe is the small cards setting you up for the end of the shoe) All the small cards will cause the ploppies to go broke and leave. Hopefully it comes down to heads up with the dealer...

every little bit helps...
 
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