Re: dealer's viewpiece

"Peaches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> what exactly does a dealer see thru the peephole?   I have read
> elsewhere that "the dealer knows exactly what the player does -
> weather or not he has a natural."
>
> Wouldn't the dealer also know when he has a 20?  It seems he must.   I
> hope so cuz I think I found a dealer who 'tells' . . . when he checked
> for BJ I could tell be his mannerism that what he saw was not good for
> the players, and sure enough - 20.

If it is peeper that I am familiar with, the dealer
is looking for a black mark. Watch carefully how the
dealer orients the card before sliding it into the
peeper. If he is looking for a face card, it is slid
vertically, else he is looking for an ace and it is
slid horizontally. The black mark indicates that the
card is what he is looking for. No black mark means
that the card is something else, but he doesn't know
what else. He only knows that it is not the card
needed to make a blackjack with his visible card.

If you look at the cards, you'll see that tens and
aces have a black mark in the corner, but in different
positions that correspond to the orientation needed
to see the black mark in the peeper. The black mark
can only be seen when slid into the peeper using the
correct orientation.