Talk:Burn card

Opening comment
I thought the burn card was kept separate and not in the discard pile, I could be wrong. Timdowd 12:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * In poker, burns are typically kept separate from discards in most games (including stud and holdem).

How is this a stub? It seems like a complete, useful article to me, which just happens to be a single paragraph. Anything more would be fluff. 24.7.186.74 20:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I already once removed a sentence saying that burn cards can deter card counters in blackjack, and I found another sentence to this effect added back in. If somebody can demonstrate how burning a card deters card counters, fine. Until then, I will continue to believe a burn card has no effect and it would be the same as if the burned card had simply been at the bottom of the deck instead. - furrykef (Talk at me) 08:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


 * You're exactly right--burn cards are no different from unknown cards at the bottom of the deck/shoe; but this does deter counters because it has the same effect as moving the cut card up higher in the deck, reducing penetration and causing the dealer to shuffle more often. --LDC 23:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, just wondering if for example with two players head to head and all in with their cards turned over, is it okay to just burn the first card and then put five cards face up without any more burns even if normally (ie. when all players are not all in and there will be betting rounds between the flop the turn and the river), burns are made after the flop and the river? Dylanjbyrne 20:55, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Burns are taken as normal, even though they aren't really serving their normal purpose in this case as you point out. It is done this way so that all the board cards won't change from what they would have been in any case.  --LDC 23:38, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Online poker and burn cards
Perhaps a sentence or two should be added about the behavior of online poker sites. Of those I've checked which have an FAQ that talks about burn cards, all of them state that they do not burn cards. Of course, the purpose of burning cards is completely obviated in the case of online poker. Burning cards would serve no purpose other than to further perturb the random number generator that shuffles the deck to begin with. Nsayer (talk) 22:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

"Burn and bury"
I thot i had read of "burn [expose to all present] and bury [in the center of the deck]" (immediately after shuffling at the start of a hand) in a WII-era paperback Hoyle. Was that instead perhaps just a Bethesda and/or military variant? (And while on the subject, does anyone else remember decks of cards with silhouettes of enemy aircraft and their US-military standard names taking up most of the space of the face of each card? I'm thinking they had an identical Pepsi ad on the back of each card... probably showing a female officer or USO worker enjoying, hmmm ... some cold drink or other in those top-heavy fountain glasses.) --Jerzy•t 00:27, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Ooh, ooh! No Pepsi, Coke, and she's a nurse, which probably didn't make her an officer! --Jerzy•t 00:46, 19 March 2017 (UTC)