SecurityRisk
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I think the worst I've ever seen was a guy who got dealt a pair of fours vs. a dealer's 10. He look at the two fours for a minute, then decided to stay.
LOL I made a similar mistake recently. It was a pitch game and the dealer had an ace up. He asked for insurance and everybody declined. For some reason I tucked my cards and never looked at them. Dealer makes his hand and starts flipping over the player's cards and paying/collecting. I suddenly said " I don't remember what I have." he flipped mine over and there was a 3 and a 4. I had tucked a hard seven. Boy did the table give me a hard time. The dealer laughs and said' "They'll catch that at the face up games over there!"fwb said:The next stupidest play I've seen was probably from myself...long ago I was playing 2 hands in a pitch game and inadvertently tucked both while only looking at one....which resulted in standing on a hard 5 vs. dealer 10, but the dealer busted :laugh:
You reminded me that a dealer once accidentally turned both cards face up in front of her for a total of 20. Pit decided not to let anyone back out of the hand despite my vocal protest (we all had less than 20). Anyway, 3 or 4 of the other 6 players had to be forced (almost physically) to hit 17+! When the next to last player wanted to stand on 16 I almost fell over.:laugh:paddywhack said:My best was hitting a hard 19 vs dealer 10 up. Yep, had to hit, she'd pushed the wrong button when checking for ace in the hole and flipped over her hole card thinking it was an ace. Only it was another 10.
The order of the cards or anything like that was not altered, so I can't fault the critter too much for making the 20 stand.HockeXpert said:You reminded me that a dealer once accidentally turned both cards face up in front of her for a total of 20. Pit decided not to let anyone back out of the hand despite my vocal protest (we all had less than 20). Anyway, 3 or 4 of the other 6 players had to be forced (almost physically) to hit 17+! When the next to last player wanted to stand on 16 I almost fell over.:laugh:
I wonder if the dealer would have had a stiff if the pit would have called it a dead hand or let us back out of the hand? Anyone had any experience?
What was the dealer thinking:laugh:paddywhack said:Another funny one.
Last night the dealer had an 8 showing. She paid the blackjack beside me but instead of taking his cards she grabbed her own and placed them into the discard tray. Since they invert the cards when placing them into the tray, we all could now see she had 18. She called the pit boss over and he said to play it out.
The two 20's and the 18 on the table stayed but I busted out my 17.
Art Linkletter eh'.....you just flipped me back in time, Sunday night, lying on the floor next to a warm pot belly stove,,,,watching a grainy B/W TV.......50 or more years ago..........................aslan said:One of the stupidest plays I ever saw was from one of the guys who came with me to Atlantic City. He went down for double on a hard 12 and busted. I think he was hoping to get lucky in which case he thought we would be impressed that he knew an 8 or 9 was coming. lol Go figure! Changing and paraphrasing something Art Linkletter used to say, "People do the darnedest things!" lol
HockeXpert's example takes the prize, hands down. Bad plays like standing on A4, which are almost routine in some of the places I play, aren't even close. I've seen comparable situations, in which the dealer exposes the next card, and a player hits KNOWING he will bust, or doesn't take a hit KNOWING the card will help him. I guess people feel obligated not to take advantage of information that they're "not supposed to know." It's pretty hard to do worse than a minus 100% expectation play, although if you really work at it you could probably come up with something even more suicidal.HockeXpert said:You reminded me that a dealer once accidentally turned both cards face up in front of her for a total of 20. Pit decided not to let anyone back out of the hand despite my vocal protest (we all had less than 20). Anyway, 3 or 4 of the other 6 players had to be forced (almost physically) to hit 17+! When the next to last player wanted to stand on 16 I almost fell over.:laugh:
Today a guy stand on 3 card "8" verses dealer Ten. It was at one of the places you are referring to above so I know you'd believe it! Besides laughing, I told him the dealer had him beat with their "up" card. (Couldn't resist)WRX said:Bad plays like standing on A4, which are almost routine in some of the places I play, aren't even close.
So tell the rest of the story. The dealer had a hole card of six, and drew a ten to bust. The next card out of the shoe was a five, which would have made the dealer 21. Who says ploppies don't know what they're doing? :laugh:Praying Mantis said:Today a guy stand on 3 card "8" verses dealer Ten. It was at one of the places you are referring to above so I know you'd believe it! Besides laughing, I told him the dealer had him beat with their "up" card. (Couldn't resist)
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PM
I'm sure you're heard them say, "I just have a hunch a ten is coming," or "I have a strong feeling the dealer has a six in the hole."Thunder said:This isn't as bad as the ones others have posted but I saw a guy yesterday stand on a soft 15 vs. dealer 10. The whole table was telling him including the dealer, to hit it. He was second to act so it's not like he could have been thinking he'd take a dealer bust card especially when I was doubling down. The guy felt like an idiot too because he would have had 20 if he had hit it. Apparently some people either are too stupid to do basic math or love parting with their money.