Shoe (cards) dealer will insert a brightly colored blank plastic card. When this card is drawn it indicates that the current game is the last one before a new shuffle. This helps mitigate player advantage via card counting, as a significant portion (usually about 25 percent) of the full inventory of cards never comes into play. The percentage of cards that are dealt is sometimes called the "penetration". Shoe (cards) A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards. The shoe allows for more games to be played by reducing
Cards in the hat thrown into the hat in one go. Cards in the hat Cards in the hat, or card flip, is a card throwing game in which the players throw playing cards into a hat or other receptacle. The game requires concentration and some skill. Two or more, equally-sized,teams are created. A hat (preferably a trilby) is placed on the floor, and a mark is determined from where each team member will play, known as the "oche". Each team puts forward one team member at a time, and each team plays alternatively, with the youngest in each team playing first. The first