I am sure this question has been asked many times in the past, but I cannot find a definitive answer anywhere, so I will try here......

Basically, there are many online Live Dealer Casinos these days, that think that they can combat all the counters by burning anything up to SIX cards at the start of the shoe.....

I have seen a number of forum posts, in the past, that state that the burn cards, because they are not seen, have no effect on the count because you can "Pretend" that they are cards that are still in the Shoe behind the Cut Card and therefore the Counter has not been disadvantaged by this procedure.......

Surely this is NOT the case......?

If this really was the case, then a Counter could come in after one deck, having missed the first 52 cards, and start counting, claiming that the cards that he has not seen, he can pretend that they are cards that are still in the Shoe behind the cut card......

Surely a Counter thinking along those lines is Naive and that there is a massive disadvantage generated for the Counter when so many cards are burnt at the start of a shoe......?