burn card
Pre-deal removal
In card games, the burn card is a card discarded face-down from the top of the deck before dealing.
Dealers burn cards to prevent players from gaining advantage by glimpsing the top card, common in poker and blackjack: The dealer burned a card before dealing the flop.
- discardDeliberately throw out
- pokerHearth implement for coals
- blackjackCard game to twenty-one
- deckShip's flat surface
- shuffleRandomize by mixing
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