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This phrase is widely used in casinos, poker rooms and other establishments offering card games. 

Description

Incomplete Deck – a deck that does not have one or more cards required for a particular game.

In casinos and poker rooms, croupiers are required to make sure that the deck is full before they start playing for money. Traditionally, the dealer unfolds her fan face down. Cards in the new deck are arranged in a certain order so that their presence can be quickly checked. 

If the deck is incomplete, it is usually subject to disposal. As a rule, establishments do not use cards from different decks, especially if they have already been involved in the game before. They may differ in the degree of wear, which is unacceptable. 

Denis Anipchenko
Denis Anipchenko
Editor-in-chief of Casinoz

Editor-in-chief of the multilingual Casinoz platform. A linguist by education, he came into the gambling industry from the offline side — before 2010, when land-based casinos in Ukraine were still legal, he worked his way up from an entry-level operational position to casino manager. He has been at Casinoz since 2010: first as an editor and review author, then editor-in-chief from 2014. Coordinates a team of authors, translators, and reviewers across all language markets of the platform.

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