Do you burn cards in home/friendly games?
As far as I am concerned, it's pretty much just a complication with no merits to us. There's no risk for the cards to be marked and the stacks we play with are minimal anyway.
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Yes, I burn cards at a friendly home game. Cards can become marked unintentionally. Further, failure to follow standard clean dealing procedures makes mistakes more likely, and even in friendly games, a mistake that costs someone a big pot can cause hard feelings. |
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Yes. It's important for consistency reasons. If one dealer does it and the next one does not, then you run into problems with people saying the wrong cards appeared on the board. It could be a house rule that you do not burn cards, but whatever is done needs to be done the same on every single hand. |
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It's not a big deal in what you describe. Depends on the home game. Some home games are very serious and involve significant stakes. Other home games are entirely casual/social occasions and involve low stakes. So, you'll probably need to burn cards in the "serious" games; in the casual/social games, I wouldn't worry about it very much. That being said.... I prefer the burn card, but in the low-stakes home game, it's not a deal breaker. |
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Burning cards is part of the game rules for all flop type poker variants. I think the game rules should be applied as they are no matter where the game is played. I've seen many bitter situations caused by bending or changing of the rules. Even changes made with good intentions can cause undesirable situations. |
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