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This term can be heard in the land-based casino. It is also used in Internet gambling. 

Description

Discard – the top cards that the dealer secretly demolishes from the deck into the bump, bringing them out of the game.

In such cases, they say that the croupier "burns the cards." Some prefer the "bury cards" option.

This measure is necessary to combat sharps who mark cards. If they put secret marks on the shirt, they will not be able to know which card will come to them or the dealer because the top sheet will go into the bump. 

Also, the discard is used to create additional difficulties for card counters, correct dealer errors during the distribution and for other purposes. 

Denis Anipchenko
Denis Anipchenko
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Editor-in-chief of the multilingual Casinoz platform. A linguist by education, he came into the gambling industry from the offline side — before 2010, when land-based casinos in Ukraine were still legal, he worked his way up from an entry-level operational position to casino manager. He has been at Casinoz since 2010: first as an editor and review author, then editor-in-chief from 2014. Coordinates a team of authors, translators, and reviewers across all language markets of the platform.

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