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    dealer mistakes

    I never ceased to be amazed by the mistakes dealers make and I am prompted to write this after one of my favourite errors was made again just the other night.
    This dealer was a pleasant young lad but clearly not accomplished at his job - he was very slow and had great trouble adding player totals when there were more than two cards in hand. If one of those cards happened to be an ace then it was especially challenging for him.
    I had a hand comprising of a ten, a six and an ace and this dealer for some reason (don't ask me how!) thought that it came to a total of 21 and beat his 20. He promptly paid me 50 instead of scooping my 50 - thank you very much for the 100 bonus!
    Over the years I have profited many times from this mistake and another favourite of mine - which also just occurred a few weeks back - was being paid for my blackjack then when the dealer bust he paid the whole table, including my box again.
    Another lucrative blunder has been made several times by a smartarse dealer at my local store who wants to show off his speed at distributing the cards. Because he goes too fast sometimes he reveals the next card out of the shoe when he has to stop with A6. Usually I am sitting at the first box and that card is mine. In the jurisdiction where I regularly play the rule is that the mistakenly revealed card has to be used in the correct order (it is not burned as would happen in many places). Of course, if it just happens to be an ace then it's time for a maximum bet as I have more than a 50% advantage.
    Every little bit helps and it's great that these mistakes come along regularly to give a nice boost to our win-rates.

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    My FAVORITE dealer mistake, and I apologize to those who've already heard the story, was being paid 3:2 for surrender. Many times. The hard part was deciding when to surrender vs doing it too much and getting caught.


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    Quote Originally Posted by RCJH View Post
    My FAVORITE dealer mistake, and I apologize to those who've already heard the story, was being paid 3:2 for surrender. Many times. The hard part was deciding when to surrender vs doing it too much and getting caught.

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    I would have settled for 6:5

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    Dealer mistakes make for some of the best stories! Here are a couple.

    One time I was dealt a hard 19 against a 10. As the dealer was dealing he started dealing a card to 3rd base, exposed the card to us, but there was nobody there so that card became his hole card and he tucked it under and apparently didn't realize he showed the 2 players at the table the card, which was a 10. So knowing he had 20 when it came for my turn I called for a hit on my hard 19. He asked me if I was sure about 3 times then called the floor over who watched him deal the card. And, it was an ace!!!! He kept going on and on about how could I have known it was an ace??? A couple hands later I told him that I didn't know but I did know he had 20!

    Recently I was at a store playing and there was a dealer change. The new dealer must have came from Spanish 21 or another variant since he would immediately pay any total of 21, would allow doubles anytime, and would allow surrender with more than two cards. As soon as I saw the crazy things he was doing I kept trying different things and he would allow me to pretty much do whatever I wanted! Hilarious.

    I think it was even the same day, a different dealer had an ace up and was asking for insurance. I had like a stiff 13 or some other garbage. As I joke I said "I'll take even money" he looked at me and said "even money?" I said yes. He took my cards and paid me the even money!

    Then there was the time the dealer paid my two red chips with two greens that was nice. Along with countless other pushes being paid or losers pushing or being paid etc. I think dealer mistakes happen often enough to almost bring the house edge to zero when playing perfect basic strategy. That or I'm just lucky and dealers make mistakes around me often!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RCJH View Post
    My FAVORITE dealer mistake, and I apologize to those who've already heard the story, was being paid 3:2 for surrender. Many times. The hard part was deciding when to surrender vs doing it too much and getting caught.
    LOL - that's classic - what a dolt!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ColorMeUp View Post
    knowing he had 20 when it came for my turn I called for a hit on my hard 19. He asked me if I was sure about 3 times then called the floor over who watched him deal the card. And, it was an ace!!!! He kept going on and on about how could I have known it was an ace??? A couple hands later I told him that I didn't know but I did know he had 20!
    If you're serious about playing, you should really spend some time to consider what you wrote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by therefinery View Post
    If you're serious about playing, you should really spend some time to consider what you wrote.
    I was on vacation somewhere I'll never be again and flat betting table min so I'm not worried about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ColorMeUp View Post
    I think dealer mistakes happen often enough to almost bring the house edge to zero when playing perfect basic strategy.
    If you are flat betting $5 and getting in 100 rounds per hour you have $500/hour total bet. The house edge is around .4% to .7% which would yield an expected house win of $2/hour to $3.5/hour. Any hourly average error over that gives the flat betting BS player an advantage.

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    last week i had a dealer
    take half my bet on a surrender, then pay me when she busted. she also didn't burn after the shuffle. i got a 12 vs 10, said shouldn't the 2 have been burned and the floor gave me the option to play the hand or not.

    then she was told the table was going to be closed after the next shoe. she proceeded to cut 15-20 cards in a 6 deck shoe. naturally i got my ass handed to me that shoe as the count went thru the roof.funnest hand was 2 max bets out- get two 11s vs a ten in a high count. other two players get bj. i get an ace on each double and lose both.

    i walked around the casino looking for her but sadly she was then dealing craps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RCJH View Post
    My FAVORITE dealer mistake, and I apologize to those who've already heard the story, was being paid 3:2 for surrender. Many times. The hard part was deciding when to surrender vs doing it too much and getting caught.


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    Dealer: Sir you have 16.
    Player: Surrender!
    Dealer: Sir you have 20.
    Player: Surrender!
    Dealer: Sir you have blackjack.
    Player: Surrender! Woh...Wait....Yeah, what the hell, surrender!

    Kind of the opposite of this!:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7m6u8hD4T8
    Last edited by marriedputter; 05-16-2017 at 12:27 AM.

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    I have yet to find this guy though:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRcQjsKWeEE

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    dealer mistakes

    Love dealer mistakes !!!
    Last edited by pilotzone; 08-01-2017 at 12:33 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CanadaKevinB View Post
    Another casino, deals to all five sq, bets are 3-1000 and 2-50, dealer has a ten up, I hit, then big player hits, neither of us break, then the dealer realizes that she forgot to check for blackjack. She checks and sure enough she has bj, she calls the boss over, boss knows we are down about 16k, and this is our first day there, so does some PR and says don't expect this every time, and called a misdeal and burnt the hand. Yes there are some people with hearts in the casino, and this was one of them.
    If the dealer hadn't offered insurance you would have to be offered insurance knowing the dealer had it. The same result as a dead hand so perhaps the Floor was making you feel like he was generous when he really wasn't.

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