Playing against a dealers exposed card.

[shadroch]

Sometimes,in the course of play,the dealer will screw up and turn over his hole card prematurely. I'm sure it's happened to almost everyone here.Inevitably,the pitboss gets involved.
Say you are at third base.You have 13 and the dealer's upcard is a 10. Dealer misses you and turns over the hole card revealing another 10. Obviously you want to take another card.
But suppose you had 15,dealer was showing a 10 and he turns over a 5.PB gives you an option hit or stand?
Do you play it as you normally would and hit,knowing the PB is watching and hoping to get some goodwill points from the guy who writes your comps or do you take advantge of the dealers mistake and let them take the card?

 

[EasyRhino]

Sometimes floormen give each player of whether or not they even want a piece of that hand, which is awesome as a sort of zero-cost surrender option.

One time, a couple of the players started griping, there was a mistake and the "flow of the cards got messed up". The floorman was trying to do damange control with each player, and when it got to describing my play I said "To be honest, I was going to hit either way", to which the floorman thanked me for my honesty, and I lost the hand.

 

[shadroch]

Thats the sort of thing I'm talking about.I just saw someone hit their 17 when the dealer showed 19,and then spend a half an hour trying to justify it.

 

[Canceler]

What kind of wackos do you play with!? Never mind.

The few times this has happened to me, the other players, and the floor, would have thought I was crazy not to take advantage of the extra information.

 

[shadroch]

The few times this has happened to me, the other players, and the floor, would have thought I was crazy not to take advantage of the extra information.

I don't care about the other players. My thoughts are on the pitboss. Will playing the hand honestly gain me anything with him.

 

[NDN21]

Playing against...

What would you gain?

An extra 5 points on your comp card that can take nearly 20,000 points to get anything?

I say take full advantage of the situation, hit or stand accordingly and let them pay for their mistake. After all if he missed you (as you wrote) that is a mistake against you and they would not necessarily go back and re-do the hand even though they made the mistake and it cost you that hand.

You did nothing wrong.

I would rather gain something right now (the win) than a little something (extra points toward comps) later.

 

[shadroch]

What would you gain?

An extra 5 points on your comp card that can take nearly 20,000 points to get anything?

I say take full advantage of the situation, hit or stand accordingly and let them pay for their mistake. After all if he missed you (as you wrote) that is a mistake against you and they would not necessarily go back and re-do the hand even though they made the mistake and it cost you that hand.

You did nothing wrong.

I would rather gain something right now (the win) than a little something (extra points toward comps) later.

I've had Pitbosses write me out comp slips while telling people betting much more than me that they have no discretion and the players card doesn't have enough play.
BJ booka are full of stories of PBs rewarding player honesty well above what the play cost the player.