What was your Worst Dealer Ever like?

[cc218]

Hello guys, new to the board, not new to blackjack. I've read through a bunch of posts and everyone seems to have their opinions of other players and which casinos they like and don't like. I'm curious to see what kind of experiences others have had with dealers that were jerks. I once had a dealer that no matter what his cards would add up to said "21". Didn't matter if he busted or had 17. In one instance he dealt himself 6 or 7 cards and of course said "21". Because he did it so quick I asked him if he could hold on a sec as i had errantly counted 22. He seemed rather offended and when i explained that him saying "21" after every hand was annoying and i was just doublechecking (i've seen dealers mess up before), he got all pissy with me. Luckily he was at the end of his shift and was shipped back to the dealer bullpen. Anybody else ever see anything like that?

[21forme]

I once had a dealer who was quick and assumed too much on her own. I was at third base, one other player at the table, had a soft 18 and wanted to double. She blew right by me, assuming I would stay, and flipped her card. I said "wait a minute, I wanted to double." Pit hears this and says for her to give me the card. I won the hand.

She looks all pissed off and starts dealing faster and faster. It was a counter's dream!

[Jeff25]

The dealer wasn't a jerk, he was joking around, but he caused me some real anxiety. Im sitting at the table, not playing. Count gets good, I place my bet. The dealer laughs and announces, "here comes mister PH.d, I bet he has written a book on this game" He got all the ploppies excited and one of them says, "he is counting the cards". The dealer then tells the ploppy, "quiet down becuase they might kick me out, plus he has to pay for is education somehow."

I ended up leaving a shoe at around T1.5 and getting the hell out of there.

[ihate17]

I am in an Indian casino where the dealers go for their own tokes and really play it up if they have any high toking regulars at their table.
I sit down at their highest limit table with two other players who the dealer obviously knew and take the seat at third base. After a few uneventful hands, I get a soft 18 vs dealer 6 and double, while the two other players stay on stiffs while also betting for the dealer. I hit a 10, the dealer turns 16, hits a 4 and before he goes to take everyone's bets he holds my 10 high in the air and waves it for the other players, doing everything but announcing that everything that just happened was my fault. I do not give one about fault but do care about this uprofessional attitude and told the dealer to his ear that that was unprofessional and that I considered him an asshole. He did not care, he was playing to his two regulars.

Two shoes later we get one of those shoes where over the first several hands the count is quickly rising. Everyone is hitting stiffs and making hands as tons of little cards have been coming out. About half way through the shoe I have max bets on the table and unlike most max bet situations the dealer is getting stiff after stiff and showing a 4,5 or 6 nearly every hand and I am also getting garbage but he must have busted 5 times in a row and the count was just about remaining the same. Finally, the count begins to go down and I score 3 blackjacks in 4 hands and perhaps win the following 4 of 5 hands after that. All told, it is a $12,000 shoe and as it is going on I am telling him what great cards he is dealing but it is against all I hold dearly to toke assholes. He is steaming and I am thinking that I could not have planned this revenge any better.

When his relief dealer showed up I did put a sizeable toke bet on the felt. The relief told him to deal another hand, mistakenly thinking that toke would be for him. I quickly corrected her and waved goodbye to my old friend, giving him something to complain about in the breakroom, I'm sure.

ihate17

[EasyRhino]

Wow, you made a dealer steam? That's pretty impressive.

There's dealers that are total lumps, with no personality at all... they're kind of annoying.

But more worrisome is dealers that tend to make errors that aren't in my favor. I can think of one dealer that would make about 4 mistakes about an hour, usually in adding up hand totals, and it never worked in the player's favor. Had to keep more on guard than usual.

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by EasyRhino

Wow, you made a dealer steam? That's pretty impressive.

There's dealers that are total lumps, with no personality at all... they're kind of annoying.

But more worrisome is dealers that tend to make errors that aren't in my favor. I can think of one dealer that would make about 4 mistakes about an hour, usually in adding up hand totals, and it never worked in the player's favor. Had to keep more on guard than usual.

Yes I've seen that too, and I hate it when dealers grudge a win. You're losing and losing, and finally you win a hand and the dealer picks up the bet anyway.

Dealers who point to your cards to get the ploppies against you (like what ihate17 described), dealers who flourish your bust cards, they're all annoying but I'll take a dealer like that over a losing session any day.

[callipygian]

I had a dealer who excessively commented on my "bad" play - hitting 12 vs. dealer 2,3; hitting soft 18 vs. dealer 9-A; doubling soft 13-16's. Ugh.

At least I didn't feel bad about stiffing him on the tip when I left the table.

[Cplcam]

I was sitting at a table with my wife, I have a hard 18, she has a soft 18, the dealer a 10. The wife waves off hitting, I turn to her point my finger at the felt between my hand & her's saying "with basic stratagy you should hit your soft 18 when the dealer has a 9,ten or ace" at which point the dealer without saying a word or me pointing to my hand...... hits my hard 18. Errrrrrrrg

[rollem411]

Originally Posted by Cplcam

I was sitting at a table with my wife, I have a hard 18, she has a soft 18, the dealer a 10. The wife waves off hitting, I turn to her point my finger at the felt between my hand & her's saying "with basic stratagy you should hit your soft 18 when the dealer has a 9,ten or ace" at which point the dealer without saying a word or me pointing to my hand...... hits my hard 18. Errrrrrrrg

Just wondering if you complained to the dealer that you didn't want the hit. I bet you could win this battle with any dealer and PB.

[beat320]

she took forever to pay out and add up the player's cards at the end, then I went to split 6's (against a 6) pulled a 10 on the one and waved it, pulled a 6 on the other and was counting how many chips i had in order to split again and she passed over me and hit the guy next to me, when i told her i wanted to split those she replied with "next time don't take 2 minutes to figure out what you're going to do" someone didn't get a tip that night, can you guess who?