I was pissed cause I pushed a hand that was supposed to win but he got a 4 of a kind. The dealer then proceeded to turn over the exact same hand. I got Q/T/T and turned to him and said you won. He kept giving me 2 red chips and a white chip as a tip to play my side bets. The other day I was playing with a nice guy that I had played before with. That would look really suspicious if they turned that over and everybody saw it. Once I folded A/3/5 because I spotted that the dealer also had an ace. But if you play the 6 card and fold, he will obviously look at it at the end of the hand. If you don't play the 6 card and you fold, the dealer just discards your hand. I'm a nice guy and don't usually mind it but I try to make an excuse and say I don't want them to play the 6 card. Then you get the other players who want to play your side bets. Everytime the dealer points out where I would have one, I point out that they never mention when I would have lost. Like somehow they'll know I'm trying to play at an advantage. I almost feel like I'm generating heat because I'll get noticed for not playing it. Less so in Ultimate Texas Hold'em but still often enough that it gets annoying. You get ridiculed in 3CP if you don't play the pair plus or 6 card.

I don't even play 3CP anymore unless it's heads up.

Not to mention how much all these bets slow down play. That's what it's like to play 3CP without the pair plus side bet. And every time that you would have won, the look of 'I told you so' becomes more apparent on his face. After you respectfully tell him that you don't like side bets, he will continue to point out every time you would have won the side bet. Now imagine that every time you would have won the side bet, the dealer points this out to you and tells you that you are losing money by not playing it. Imagine that you are playing blackjack and don't play the 21+3 sidebet because you know it is a sucker bet. I don't play this game anymore because the dealer and other players kept lecturing me on not playing the pairs bet. I believe the correct play is to just do the ante bet, especially if you are hole carding.

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