zoomie said:
Borgata even printed up rules to hand out that denied bonuses on splits. Eventually someone complained to the right person (NJGC?) and now Borg is playing correctly.
Yes, stand your ground on that, even for $5, and even if you see a ploppy getting stiffed. What screws them up is that for some inexplicable reason the $5K Super Bonus is what doesn't pay on a split, and they read that as no bonuses paying on a split.
But sometimes they don't
read that at all, as I'm about to relate. I was playing SP21 and got my 8-7-6 on split 7's with $10 down. The dealer didn't want to pay the bonus, I told her to call her supervisor over, a PC came over, called up the shift manager and after a 30 second conversation, came and paid me my $5. Cool, let's play.
Now a few hands later, the pit boss comes back from a break, has a conversation with the PC, stomps over to my table with an angry glare and demands the $5 back. How did I respond? Well, I gave her the same response I would give to any other idiot who asks me for money in a casino. As Sarah Palin would say, I reFUdiated her. She starts screaming at me, how I tricked the dealer, etc. I just told her to get the official rule book out and read it. So she and the PC get the manual out, and the supervisor (not the pit boss) says "Bonuses not paid on doubled hands." The PB goes "See- they're not paid on doubled hands!" And I answer "Yes. Now was my hand a doubled hand, or a split hand?" "Same thing!" At that point I knew I was dealing with a complete moron.
But it gets better. As they are going through the manual trying to find the part that says I don't get a regular bonus on split hands, I noticed the supervisor was actually reading the manual and the PB was just repeating everything. It appeared the pit boss was, literally, illiterate. How did she even get this job? She was not pretty, couldn't have screwed her way in, must have been somebody's mother or sister. Anyway, eventually the two other PC's were catching on and realized I was right, so they kind of led her away from the table, and later on I saw the shift manager talking to her on the far side of the pit, and he did not look pleased. All this for a red chip. I lost more than that in EV with this argument, and the casino lost far more than me.