[Bobby C]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote> the dealer should probably be written up for this.</end quote></div>

The best dealer in the world is still going to do something like this once or twice a year. Unless the dealer in question is a chronic screw-up, there's no need to write up a good dealer--he knows he failed, he feels bad about it, and he'll be more diligent in the immediate future.

I like to think I'm a very good dealer (kind of like how people boast about being "an excellent driver", as if they mastered something difficult). About once a year, I'll do something mind-boggling, like spread a flop in a stud game, or drop the deck on the turn, or put out the turn card before the betting on the flop has been complete.

Dealers have a dull, monotonous job, and their brains often go to sleep on the job. There's no getting around this, it's a fact of poker life. That's why they get so many breaks.

So get used to it.