Quote Originally Posted by moses View Post
Terry. I think your values are correct. But your places are misplaced. A store is a fair exchange. A casino is competition. Suppose an official steps off a 20 yard penalty which is 5 yards to your teams advantage. Any Coach that pointed this out might not only get fired, but hung.

Suppose you are at table full of people. The dealer has 3 up and a 3 in the hole. Now hits 5,4,6. He begins to pay everyone at the table. Are you still going to point his error? Or just give back your portion?
Not sure if I agree with your statement that a store and a casino are conceptually different. But, I'll think about that one.

As I said in an earlier post, I DO keep my mouth shut when the type of error your describe impacts others at the table. If the error rewards others in addition to myself, I remain quiet. Likewise, if I see that another player receives a payment in error e.g., a payoff when it was a push, I also keep quiet. I only correct the dealer when the payoff error is limited to my hand. I once saw a payoff error so egregious I had to suspect the dealer and player were in collusion. However, I remained quiet.

I'm not even sure if that's a totally consistent position. But, at some level I feel each person gets to play their own hand, and it is also up to each person to decide how to handle dealer errors.