Dealer scan delay?

One thing people miss, some of that pause is the Peek Rule, not the scanner acting up. I wrote it down for a week, ace and ten upcards took sooo much of the awkward dead air in my notes

Yeah, I notice it, and when it keeps happening I just leave the table. In my experience the rooms with that fussy card scan nonsense usually have clunky Table Rules too, same cheap feel as those slow live Poker streams where every hand gets dragged out for no good reason.

Sometimes is doing a loooot of work there. Sounds like plain lag 🙃

Nah, that's scanner lag, not the dealer. Roulette has the same hiccups.

Lowkey I think you’re giving the pause way too much power, man. In blackjack the card was the card before that scanner ever chirped, and if you’re playing Basic Strategy your move usually doesn’t change because the dealer had to wave a 6 twice. I drove nights for years and got weirdly good at spotting “pattern brain” in myself, same thing here imo. The only time I care is if they’re pushing side bets hard, because that’s where people start making dumb emotional clicks.