A shuffle through the Gaming mailbag:
Q. I had something weird happen at Three Card Poker. I was dealt 5 of clubs, 10 of diamonds and 9 of clubs two hands in a row.
It s a bad hand, one I folded right away the first time. The second time, I looked at my cards and said, Hey, these are the same cards as last time. Were they shuffled at all?
The dealer pointed out that not only were they shuffled, they were a different deck since one deck is in the shuffler while the other was being dealt.
Other players were asking if I was sure they were the same cards. There s no discard tray you can check things like that, but I knew they were the same. Nobody else would have noticed since it wasn t a winning hand. They just had to take my word for it.