Most ridiculous dealer error

[aslan]

Not an error, but I played today at a place I haven't been to for 6 months, primarily because they shout out "green action" and a so-so game.

Anyway, I was dealt a 7,7 v 5 and I split them. Dealer screamed out "splitting sevens." I almost sprayed my beverage on the table with that one :laugh:

Don't think I'll go back for another 6 months...

Next thing you know, casinos will start barring people if they seem to have even the foggiest idea they know what they are doing. Memorization of the BS card will be a sure cause for disbarring. Less than three errors an hour will be another. Only brainless individuals will be allowed access to table games. IQ testing will become a prerequisite for players club membership. Baaaa!

[Aslan's soapbox] For every person who loses his or her life savings in a casino, one casino executive should be selected at random, fired, and jailed for 20 years in a maximum security prison. Maybe then, casino management would begin taking responsibility for their part in the addictions and misconceptions they so avidly foster in potential patrons. I've been said to defend casinos, and I do find good in them, but the bottom line is the overall damage done and supported by their active promotion, and justified in their minds by their halfhearted disclaimers and warnings about gambling addiction and the risks involved. I wonder if it [casinos] would even be a viable business if the nature of gambling addiction and the risks of gambling against the house advantage were drilled into the public mind. If a business fails only because the truth is generally known by the public, then it does not deserve to be a business in the first place, and the state should decline to license it. Sorry APs, but in an ideal world (Aslan's vision, anyway), you might be forced to use your discipline and mental skills to make a living in the business world, where I have no doubt you would excel just the same.

 

[shadroch]

Worst error I ever saw was a series of errors.
Imperial Palace, about four years ago, perhaps 7 in the morning.
Dealer is an aging Asian woman trying to look much younger than she is and bored out of her mind.
Three people at the table.
I get a BJ. She pays me.
She draws four cards to 17, pays the whole table including myself.
Then she draws another card, a duece. She pays me and one other, tries to take the money from the player who had 18. He tells her -are you nuts? You just hit 17. She laffs, says she needs a break and proceeds to pay everyone again.
I got paid for my BJ. I got paid when she stopped at 17, I got paid when she thought she had 19, and I got paid again when she realized she'd made a mistake.
Two hands later, she calls her three card 16 as 17 and pays the table.
Sadly, it was a $10 table.

 

[Blue Efficacy]

I was playing with one other person when this happens.
I hit to 19, then the other player at the table busts. Dealer flips over his hole card, and then just scoops up the cards, including mine. He forgot about my hand!

I was wishing I was in a bad spot so I could have just let this go. But it was 19 vs a dealer stiff total, so I had to get the floor over to dig up the discards and finish the hand. Never seen anything like that.

 

[fwb]

I had a brand new dealer at 4am, and he was nervous as hell. It was a pitch game and his sweaty hands were starting to make the cards stick together. I hit a hand and he gave me two cards...an ace and a 5. He turned pale and had the biggest "oh sh*t" look I've ever seen. I just smiled and said "don't worry, I was supposed to get the 5 anyway, so you can just take that ace back." With a sigh of relief, he put the ace back on top of the deck. I was anxiously awaiting the call from the eye, but it never came...and as no more cards were drawn that round...I was left with a huge +EV opportunity on my plate.

 

[Sucker]

Not necessarily a RIDICULOUS dealer error, but certainly a ridiculous reaction by the players:

I was watching a DD game in the Circus Circus in Reno once, when the dealer accidentally dropped his hole card face up as he was trying to deal it to himself.
The card was a ten, his up card was an ace. Rather than try to quickly turn it down, he just shrugged his shoulders & asked: "Anybody want insurance?" Even though all 7 players at the table SAW the card and some even commented on it, no one acted! Finally, I blurted out "For God's sake, take insurance!"; whereupon a little old lady at the table turned around and said to me with a straight face - "Never take insurance!".

I walked by the table 20 minutes later. The dealer glanced at me - STILL giggling about it.

 

[21forme]

I was playing heads up when this happened.
I hit to 19, then the other player at the table busts.

Are you just testing us to see if anyone's reading this? :grin:

I was supposed to get the 5 anyway, so you can just take that ace back." With a sigh of relief, he put the ace back on top of the deck. I was anxiously awaiting the call from the eye, but it never came...and as no more cards were drawn that round...I was left with a huge +EV opportunity on my plate.

So what happened next hand? Did you bet table max?

 

[prankster]

Not necessarily a RIDICULOUS dealer error, but certainly a ridiculous reaction by the players:

I was watching a DD game in the Circus Circus in Reno once, when the dealer accidentally dropped his hole card face up as he was trying to deal it to himself.
The card was a ten, his up card was an ace. Rather than try to quickly turn it down, he just shrugged his shoulders & asked: "Anybody want insurance?" Even though all 7 players at the table SAW the card and some even commented on it, no one acted! Finally, I blurted out "For God's sake, take insurance!"; whereupon a little old lady at the table turned around and said to me with a straight face - "Never take insurance!".

I walked by the table 20 minutes later. The dealer glanced at me - STILL giggling about it.

Wow,and I mean wow! Unfreakin' real! Great story!:joker:

 

[aslan]

I was playing heads up when this happened. I hit to 19, then the other player at the table busts. Dealer flips over his hole card, and then just scoops up the cards, including mine. He forgot about my hand!

Are you just testing us to see if anyone's reading this?

He obviously meant he hit until he got [to] 19.:grin::whip:

 

[Canceler]

He obviously meant he hit until he got [to] 19.:grin::whip:

You missed it. Here, try again...

I was playing heads up when this happened.
I hit to 19, then the other player at the table busts.

 

[21forme]

You missed it. Here, try again...

Thanks. You beat me to chastising Aslan myself

 

[aslan]

Yikes!!!! I guess Aslan is having humble pie for dinner tonight. Thanks guys..I needed that. :laugh:

 

[Blue Efficacy]

You missed it. Here, try again...

Okay, it was late when I posted this! Corrected.

 

[Katweezel]

Worst error I ever saw was a series of errors.
Imperial Palace, about four years ago, perhaps 7 in the morning.
Dealer is an aging Asian woman trying to look much younger than she is and bored out of her mind.
Three people at the table.
I get a BJ. She pays me.
She draws four cards to 17, pays the whole table including myself.
Then she draws another card, a duece. She pays me and one other, tries to take the money from the player who had 18. He tells her -are you nuts? You just hit 17. She laffs, says she needs a break and proceeds to pay everyone again.
I got paid for my BJ. I got paid when she stopped at 17, I got paid when she thought she had 19, and I got paid again when she realized she'd made a mistake.
Two hands later, she calls her three card 16 as 17 and pays the table.
Sadly, it was a $10 table.

Shad, I'm really surprised at you, sitting there trying to keep a straight face while she pays you not once, but three more times in error. :eyepatch:
This confession of yours could be prima facie evidence, should the casino decide to get their $45 back off you. I'm no lawyer but WRX might be able to tell us if you committed a felony - and you admitted it - and if so, does the crime live forever?

 

[Pelerus]

Worst error I ever saw was a series of errors.
Imperial Palace, about four years ago, perhaps 7 in the morning.
Dealer is an aging Asian woman trying to look much younger than she is and bored out of her mind.
Three people at the table.
I get a BJ. She pays me.
She draws four cards to 17, pays the whole table including myself.
Then she draws another card, a duece. She pays me and one other, tries to take the money from the player who had 18. He tells her -are you nuts? You just hit 17. She laffs, says she needs a break and proceeds to pay everyone again.
I got paid for my BJ. I got paid when she stopped at 17, I got paid when she thought she had 19, and I got paid again when she realized she'd made a mistake.
Two hands later, she calls her three card 16 as 17 and pays the table.
Sadly, it was a $10 table.

This story is clearly the uncontested winner amongst those listed, and if true it would be impossible to beat except by behavior exceeding the ninth standard deviation of stupidity.

The average person would probably need to consume a cocktail laced with at least 3 hallucinogenic substances before committing an error of this magnitude.

 

[WABJ11]

Not necessarily a RIDICULOUS dealer error, but certainly a ridiculous reaction by the players:

I was watching a DD game in the Circus Circus in Reno once, when the dealer accidentally dropped his hole card face up as he was trying to deal it to himself.
The card was a ten, his up card was an ace. Rather than try to quickly turn it down, he just shrugged his shoulders & asked: "Anybody want insurance?" Even though all 7 players at the table SAW the card and some even commented on it, no one acted! Finally, I blurted out "For God's sake, take insurance!"; whereupon a little old lady at the table turned around and said to me with a straight face - "Never take insurance!".

I walked by the table 20 minutes later. The dealer glanced at me - STILL giggling about it.

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

I almost spit my drink all over my keyboard! This is hilarious and I think it takes the cake. I'm surprised the dealer did not, as he should have, called the floor over.

 

[blackchipjim]

never again

I would say this was the strangest and scariest thing that every happend to me years ago. I was playing at a strip casino years back at a smaller joint and sat at a table in a darker and more crowded section of the place. The dealer was on tilt and paying losing hands and giving the joints money away. I tried to correct a few hands with no avail and the pit caught him a few times screwing up but he just kept doing it. At first I couldn't believe he was so inept then it turned into a scarey scenario. I didn't know nor did anyone else at the table what to do? I waited until he started to get his arse chewed again by the floor and made a quick color up and exit. I think if they questioned me about what happend I would have just feigned ignorance and hoped for the best.

 

[tensplitter]

I had a dealer who had a 6 upcard, 9 in the hole, and drew a 7 and declared he had 21 and scooped everyone's cards and bets. I called the pit boss over, since he scooped all the cards and they got rearranged in random order, they had to confirm it by the eye in the sky footage. That took 10 minutes but finally everyone got paid.

I got paid 2:1 for my blackjack by mistake.

I had a 16, dealer had an ace. The player to my right had a 15 and motioned to surrender, and was saying surrender as the dealer drew a card for him because he thought he wanted to hit. The card was a 7. The pit boss pushed his bet, and let me play knowing the next card was a 7. I doubled down on a hard 14 and, you guessed it, pulled a 7 for 21

Second day table games were legalized in PA, I was playing at Parx. The penetration was very good, with less than half a deck cut off. On the last hand, the first player was dealt the cut card, so the dealer finished dealing to everyone. Dealer had an ace showing, 5 in the hole and drew the last card in the shoe, a ten, to make a hard 16. He called the pit boss over and he had the computer push everyone's bets.

 

[moo321]

Hmm, I had a dealer repetedly try to get me to double down with A-4-6. "You've got eleven!"

Got paid $300 on a $100 matchplay (instead of of $200) one time.

 

[itrack]

I had one dealer that saw me raise my bet from 5-100 dollars, and I lost a couple 100 dollar bets in a row, and on the 3rd or 4th one I had a 2 card stiff hand and stayed against his bust card. After the dealer pulled a 20 he looked at me and said, I feel so bad for you. He PAID me and then took the cards. A short time later he got tapped out to go on break and I thought of tipping him, but then realized that would be a horrible mistake incase of getting accused of collusion.

 

[65D]

I had a dealer who had a 6 upcard, 9 in the hole, and drew a 7 and declared he had 21 and scooped everyone's cards and bets. I called the pit boss over, since he scooped all the cards and they got rearranged in random order, they had to confirm it by the eye in the sky footage. That took 10 minutes but finally everyone got paid.

I got paid 2:1 for my blackjack by mistake.

I had a 16, dealer had an ace. The player to my right had a 15 and motioned to surrender, and was saying surrender as the dealer drew a card for him because he thought he wanted to hit. The card was a 7. The pit boss pushed his bet, and let me play knowing the next card was a 7. I doubled down on a hard 14 and, you guessed it, pulled a 7 for 21

Second day table games were legalized in PA, I was playing at Parx. The penetration was very good, with less than half a deck cut off. On the last hand, the first player was dealt the cut card, so the dealer finished dealing to everyone. Dealer had an ace showing, 5 in the hole and drew the last card in the shoe, a ten, to make a hard 16. He called the pit boss over and he had the computer push everyone's bets.

I thought you had a 16, not 14?