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
Talon (cards) table. In other games, there are however very different variations, for example in Königrufen. Talons may be placed face up or face down. Parlett describes a "kitty" as "the pool or pot being played for" or "a dead hand or widow". He also equates "talon" to "stock" as the "cards which are not dealt initially but may be drawn from or dealt out later in the play." The following are examples of games and the term usually used for talon. They are taken from Parlett unless otherwise indicated: Talon (cards) A talon (; French for "heel") in card games is