Re: Victoria, this one's especially for you/the wonderful world of Indian Casinos
Stealth
Guess you remember my post about aces and faces seemingly heavy off the top of every shoe. I can only now agree with everyone that it was just weird variance. Been back to the same place several times and have had normal counts, unusually good shoes, and like you (and yesterday also) what seems like 90% negative shoes. Frustration at never seemingly getting a good count magnifies everything. We may count cards and use math but somewhere along the line human nature catches up with us.
Yesterday it must have been amateur hour at the nearby Indian Casino. We must of had a 5 minute or longer conversation about buying houses between a dealer, her replacement and a ploppy without a card drawn. Dealers talking to each other from table to table slowing down the game. Many inexperienced dealers who not only dealt super slow but made mistakes all over the place. Real annoying habits like when a dealer shows his hole card for a total of 11 and then goes into a suspense mode with a long slow dramatic draw of the next card.
I would bet when I could not get to a table that just cleared out the ploppies, I must have averaged a whopping 30 or less hands per hour.
Some mistakes
Twice after busting and putting a next bet up early the dealer tried to take this bet also. Three times I was paid when the dealer beat me and twice when we pushed. The best one was when she paid the table. I am at 3rd with a 20, dealer has 8,5 pulls an 8, thinks she busts and pays everyone with a pit (I am believing the pit here is also clueless) critter looking over her shoulder and counting chips in the tray. On another hand, the woman next to me forgot to put chips in the circle and the dealer passes her by and I land up with a natural. The ploppy begins to go insane and wants to now put up a bet,and have the cards moved around. Pit comes over and instead of just saying that if there is no bet in the circle, there is nothing he can do, he is trying to find a solution. I just tell him, "do what you want but I expect to get paid for the natural", I think he realized finally then that his easiest solution, especially since the dealer was showing a stiff and everyone would be upset, was to play the hand out. I just found the whole thing unbelieveable that this guy would even consider anything except what happened, the woman did not play that hand. Now they expanded recently, most of their dealers had Vegas experience but they have hired a ton of new ones without experience who are being trained by?????????? Since they used to be in one of those big tents before expanding, I can only guess that the pit was trained by Bozo.
As long as I am on a roll with their procedures, here's another one. Dealer forgets to burn a card and deals the hands. She calls the pit. Dealer showing 10, pit gives us the choice of playing or not. Seems OK but about two hours later same thing happens except now dealer is showing a 4 and most players have strong hands, there's a BJ, and a double down possible also. Pit says, we have to burn the whole hand. I stop him and tell him what happened before and point out his supervisor who have us the option. It takes forever but we do play the hand. About 10 minutes later I get a tap on the shoulder and am asked if I am Victoria (just knew they were throwing my butt out of there) and it is the supervisor giving me a comp to their new restaurant. Go figure.
