Asking to See the Burn Card

**Sharpe** · 07-01-2018, 04:25 AM

It is an Asian susperstition; at least according to Ian Andersen.

**cc12b** · 07-03-2018, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Sharpe

It is an Asian susperstition; at least according to Ian Andersen.

Really? A lot of Asian players in my local casinos but I never see anyone ask for burn card at BJ tables. One of the casino shows the burn cards for easy Baccarat, they pulled the 1st cards then use that as how many cards they should burn like if the 1st card was 2 they burn 2 cards, if it was 10/face they remove 10 cards, face up. I personally do not think it effect my play as we know the count will meaningful at close to cut card.

**Sharpe** · 07-03-2018, 03:30 PM

Hey, I threw out my two cents on the topic in which the OP asked if anyone has heard of asking to see the burn card. I recently read Ian Andersen’s book “Burning The Tables in Las Vegas” and he actually talked about this topic, which I also found interesting.

I won’t go into much detail but there is a chapter in the book called “The High Roller”. In this section he describes the characteristics of the high roll gambler. He apparently studied their actions because he wanted to seem like a “gambler” rather than an advantage player.

He noticed the majority of these high rollers were Asian and they had quite a few superstitions while gambling; one of which was the burn card. If the burn card was an 8, then this was supposed to be a lucky shoe.

I’m not claiming Ian Andersen is an “expert” in Asian culture. Simply explaining my understanding on this subject.. take it or leave it.

Cheers!