Going back to both of our most recent posts...we don't burn a new card and proceed when a card is accidently exposed on the initial deal, we substitute the exposed card with the "would be " burn! Thus preserving the proper board. So what's the difference?
Any arguments against my example of 100% VS 40% proper cards?
I rest my case and await further discussion. K-Lo, are you there?
The difference is that when a card is exposed on the initial deal, (a) you will be 100% certain that the next 4 cards on the deck are, in fact, the proper burn and the proper flop because you are able to correct the problem immediately, and (b) your dealer will exchange the proper burn with the exposed card in his hand so that the first flop card is never left exposed for a significant amount of time during the pre-flop betting round.
If you had dealt the SB a third card by mistake, you would certainly put that third card back on the deck and correct that mistake immediately. This is OK. Again, you are 100% certain that the proper flop has been left intact and can correct the situation immediately AND the first flop card is not left unexposed during the first betting round.
However, once the action proceeds for some time after the dealing of the hole cards and then you find -- after all that time has passed, after substantial action has taken place -- that someone has more than two cards, how can you be *100%* certain that the extra card(s) got there on the deal for that same hand? I don't think you can be 100% certain
at that point in the hand, otherwise you would have corrected that mistake immediately when you saw it happen. Furthermore, even if somehow you were 100% certain, there is no good reason to allow pre-flop action to continue with the back of the first flop card exposed for all to see.
I agree with you that this does not happen that often. But if that's the case, what's wrong with doing it the way 99% of TDs around the world are doing it now? If you must insist on using your method of not burning (which I would never do and is not common practice), might I suggest at the very least put one of the extra cards that you are going to use as the burn to cover the top of the deck until the pre-flop betting round is complete. (To be clear though, I HATE the idea of putting back cards on top of an otherwise undisturbed deck, so I'm cringing even as I suggest this).