Hey guys, first post - I just registered to ask a question about a hand that came in to play this morning.

Myself and two others are playing double deck hand pitch. Dealer gets dealt a 3. We have 14, 14, and third base has 15. Third base waves to stay but dealer mistakenly gives her a hit. A situation that I'm sure comes up often. The hit card is a Jack.

Pit boss comes over and gets explained the situation. He takes the Jack away from third base's 15 and immediately puts it in the burn pile. I simply say I've never seen that before, and he gets instantly pissy and defensive talking about 'let me do my job' etc, and after the hand he continues on with 'there are complaint forms if you want one'. All that because I said 'I've never seen that before' in regards to him burning a ten, the naturally next card, with dealer showing 3. He said something else along the lines of 'this is the correct way to handle it', alluding that his ruling to burn the Jack was by the book. So, first question is - is he right that the Jack gets burned instead of given to the dealer, as it would of been the dealers next card naturally.

Even crazier, which I can't imagine he did correctly by the book either: Dealer flips a Ten to go with his Three, making 13. He takes a card, and as you can imagine, it's a 5 to make 18. THEN - he makes the dealer hit the 18, eventually busting, and paying the entire table. Generous of him to do that and we all benefitted of course, but I am curious about how right or wrong this pit boss was. Normally I don't care but with how aggressive he was with his 'let me do my job' and 'I can get complaint forms' talk I'd just like some closure on what truly is the right ruling.

Was he right to kill the Jack? Was he right to make the dealer hit the 18?

I think the Gaming Commision would say this Pit Boss went 0 for 2 in decision making. First being wrong to kill the Jack, and Secondly being wrong to have the dealer hit an 18.

Obviously this situation helped us so I'm not complaining.

Interesting forum here. I'm sure there is plenty info to gather and a lot of interesting stories. I'm not the greatest at Blackjack and still make mistakes, but I've already been told I can't play Blackjack at three separate Las Vegas casinos but they'd gladly take my action in any other game