impactful, below-the-line, etc.

[Dan Goncharoff]

Also, the deck of cards is usually not directly in front of the dealer --
that's where his money is -- but out of the way, put to the side between
the dealer and a neighboring player.

DanG


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:26 PM, W Brewer wrote:
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> > RE: buck or buck knife or buck knife handle as poker dealer indicator.
> > Seems to me, whoever is holding the deck tells you who the dealer is.
>
>
> Speaking from personal experience (although we don't use buck-knives or
> dollar bills to indicate the dealer in our dealer's choice games), hands
> can last long enough that one forgets by the end who dealt it (cf. "Who
> dealt this mess", a possibly but not necessarily rhetorical question) and
> thus who is responsible for the next deal.  And as Dan notes, the dealer is
> responsible not only for dealing but for anteing (or, in draw poker where
> everyone antes, for anteing more).
>
> LH
>
> > Why
> > would you need any further indication? (I.e., is the "buck" in poker a
> mere
> > folk-etymology, or is it actually attested in use?)
> > {The buck stops here} sign = there is no further bucking (i.e. evasion)
> of
> > responsibility at this desk.
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