Player vs player, blackjack blackmail
Sorry if this gets a little long.
About 1 1/2 years ago I was at my favorite vegas place, on a $25 table and noticed that they were giving just about all their $5 tables a fill of yellow, $1,000 chips. They have this player, loud beer drinking big guy who won a lottery or something and had a credit line of a couple million. He likes playing the $5 table and the house takes the limit signs off for him. He also constantly bounces from table to table, leaving chips behind, taking markets at every table, tips sometimes in the thousands per hand, drives the pit boss crazy and according to the dealers is the most beloved person in the universe. The guy was a real show, moving around, hitting hard 17 against a dealer 8, getting pissed at the dealer so he bets $100 for himself and $1,000 for the dealer and challenges her to give him a stiff now. He goes to the men's room comes back and yells as loud as he can to the pit boss, "where was I playing?"
A dealer friend of mine told me that when he showed up (about twice a year), her mortgage was handled for the next few months.
He was not at my table but having a tough night I decided that I should go for some entertainment and moved to a $5 table hoping he would show up there. He did. He also likes to place money under your bet if he thinks your lucky. I had a $50 bet out and he places $5,000 under it looking at me and asking if it is alright. Don't you know, I get a pair 9's, dealer has an 8, count, well with that guy I had lost the count a few hands earlier. Then it hits me, pressure based upon his bet. I ask him if he wants to split and he says, "do whatever the hell you want." so I do and thankfully we win but that is not the real player ultimate.
A woman at the table with a ten dollar bet of her own and about $10,000 of his money under it, gets blackjack. She tells him to pay her $1,000 or she will double down and he is mad. The pit boss is right there (the boss ignored any table this guy was not at understandably}, and flat out told him that it is the woman's hand and she has a right to play it any way she wanted. He paid her, she left, he continued on and still put money under people's bets.
My understanding was that he lost something near 900,000 and more than 25% of it was tokes.
I only go to vegas two or three times a year but doubt I will ever see a show like that again.
I guess I should ask if anyone else ever saw a case of blackjack blackmail
