[imperial10]

At my home we follow the Daniel Negreanu poker philosophy of friendly poker. No hard feelings and no bad blood. You loose you take it like a man and have a beer. With that principle, my buddies and I have adopted some allowable methods of playing. Such as if you're dealing you can give the cards to a player that is not in the hand to deal or lay out the community cards face down after dealing the cards out so that you can play correctly and not have to give any tells while dealing.

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with this style we have to be a little careful that the mucked cards don't interrupt the play and get mixed with the community cards. I check each deck before play, checking for marked cards... honest poker here. Doing this will also cure the lazy dealer and have the cards ready for action.

Another thing we do is, when it comes to heads up and a player goes all in, the dealer will ask " hey you want the COOL WAY" and if they say yes then we arrange the cards like they do on WSOP and reveal the cards until the turn card. We wash the mucked cards and the rest of the deck so that it doesn't expose the mucked cards by folded players and then box them, then the dealer picks up the mucked cards with the rest of the deck....exposes the cards by facing the deck up and one by one starts eliminating the outs the person needs to win. On one side the dealer lays cards that are needed to win thus showing the outs the person needs to win. The other side are the cards that are unnecessary.

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Eventually all the outs and cards are eliminated and then we turn the river card and in an extreme but good for tv case this might happen....



It's a fun way to add some substance to head up play.