Has a dealer ever made you want to scream?

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21forme

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After losing 3 max bets in a monster count, dealer I know pretty well says,"this isn't going well. I'm going to shuffle for you." Before I could say a word, or scream NOOOO!, the cards were being riffled.
 
21forme said:
After losing 3 max bets in a monster count, dealer I know pretty well says,"this isn't going well. I'm going to shuffle for you." Before I could say a word, or scream NOOOO!, the cards were being riffled.
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Nice guy. :)

Look at it philosophically--you had a 49% chance of losing even more. :joker::whip:
 
21forme said:
Yes, I requested in the future to ask me before doing that, as I felt my luck was about to change.
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Doc,
She may have done you a favor.....

I remember recently playing through half of a 5/6d cut shoe, losing an entire trip BR in only half a shoe..... monster count.... heads up.... losing hand after hand.... and the dealer offered to shuffle up and I held my ground.....

Oh well....

Got it back three weeks later in a few hours but it sure burned me up to lose an entire trip BR in less then 10 minutes!

Hope all things are well otherwise.

BJC
 
bjcount said:
Doc,
She may have done you a favor.....

I remember recently playing through half of a 5/6d cut shoe, losing an entire trip BR in only half a shoe..... monster count.... heads up.... losing hand after hand.... and the dealer offered to shuffle up and I held my ground.....

Oh well....

Got it back three weeks later in a few hours but it sure burned me up to lose an entire trip BR in less then 10 minutes!

Hope all things are well otherwise.

BJC
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If its a favor to shuffle up an advantageous situation because you might lose everything, then don't play :)
 
Just last night...

I played six spots, last hand, at $100 each. There's one empty spot left. Dealer tells me to play the last spot too. I do so, and she gets blackjack. I felt like killing her. :flame:
 
shinyam said:
Just last night...

I played six spots, last hand, at $100 each. There's one empty spot left. Dealer tells me to play the last spot too. I do so, and she gets blackjack. I felt like killing her. :flame:
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I wonder if that would fall under the heading of justifiable homicide? :laugh:
 
Had an annoying dealer the other day. I was playing 2 spots and the dealer kept telling to only play one spot as 2 wasn't working for me. Must have told me about 6 times. Three other players playing 1 spot. The dealer was getting good cards. Other players are getting cranky and the dealer was trying to shift the blame on me for playing 2 spots.. saying there's too many hands in.
 
I almost lost my cool with a dealer last night. He was doing everything imaginable to slow the game down, it was bizarre.

He did dozens of things, for example:

He moved the deck forward to be cut and just as the player brought the cut card down, he slid the deck back so the guy missed. Everyone laughed while I rolled my eyes. He offered the deck again, slid it back again. He did this FOUR times before finally letting the guy cut.

He also did the whole pretend he has a blackjack thing every single time he checked.

I stuck it out, the count was good and he gave great penetration. It was really, really difficult for me to not say something.

I'm pretty sure unnecessarily slow dealers are my biggest pet peeve.

I remember one lady was brutally slow while I was heads up and I finally said something. Turns out she was going slow on purpose because she figured I wanted to wait for more players. Once she knew I wanted to get hands she was quick.
 
I wonder if this dealer shuffled on you because he detected you were counting. Some casinos that I have seen instruct dealers to do this, and they could lose their jobs if they don't keep a watchful eye out.


I have never seen a dealer arbitrarily shuffle because he felt like it without permission from the player or the pit.
 
There's a dealer at one of the Palm Springs casinos that makes me absolutely crazy. And he always seems to rotate to the table I'm at when I'm playing my last half hour of so and want to get as many hands as possible in before I have to leave.

Nice guy, but he has to be OCD - picture Rain Man as the dealer instead of the player. He deals the cards slow. He fiddles with the chips in the tray. He readjusts cards on the table. He moves in extreme slow motion.

If possible, I now change tables when he rotates in.
 
JulieCA said:
There's a dealer at one of the Palm Springs casinos that makes me absolutely crazy. And he always seems to rotate to the table I'm at when I'm playing my last half hour of so and want to get as many hands as possible in before I have to leave.

Nice guy, but he has to be OCD - picture Rain Man as the dealer instead of the player. He deals the cards slow. He fiddles with the chips in the tray. He readjusts cards on the table. He moves in extreme slow motion.

If possible, I now change tables when he rotates in.
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Sounds like a three-toed sloth with OCD. I did a paper on the three-toed sloth in college biology class. I figured it wouldn't require a lengthy paper to capture everything they did in the obligatory hour of observation. I was right. What was cool was when two three-toed sloths met each other while traveling the same vine in opposite directions. They were actually able to pass each other by carefully reaching over the other's hands one-by-one and grasping the vine on the other side in perfect agonizingly slow, slow motion.
 
Slow dealers do drive me crazy now. I hate dealers who deal slowly. I didn't think I would get to this point, but I'm at this point now.
 
flyingwind said:
Slow dealers do drive me crazy now. I hate dealers who deal slowly. I didn't think I would get to this point, but I'm at this point now.
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The only slow dealers I like are the one's who forget who they paid, the one's who pay pushes, the ones who think they are busted on soft 22's, and those who are so inept they flash hole cards and shuffle poorly allowing easy shuffle tracking. Other than that, I hate slow dealers, too.
 
In Vegas one time playing heads up, +6 count, I got a pair of tens and the dealer had 6. He assumed I would stay and flipped his hole card as I was getting chips to split my tens. The hole card was 10. Had to call over the pit boss and then I split my tens and got a 5 on one and a 10 on the other. If I didn't split or say anything, the dealer would have had 21.
 
tensplitter said:
In Vegas one time playing heads up, +6 count, I got a pair of tens and the dealer had 6. He assumed I would stay and flipped his hole card as I was getting chips to split my tens. The hole card was 10. Had to call over the pit boss and then I split my tens and got a 5 on one and a 10 on the other. If I didn't split or say anything, the dealer would have had 21.
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Sometimes it will help you and sometimes it will hurt you.
 
tensplitter said:
In Vegas one time playing heads up, +6 count, I got a pair of tens and the dealer had 6. He assumed I would stay and flipped his hole card as I was getting chips to split my tens. The hole card was 10. Had to call over the pit boss and then I split my tens and got a 5 on one and a 10 on the other. If I didn't split or say anything, the dealer would have had 21.
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That would not be a pet peeve. That situation can only benefit you. Of course. If it happens repeatedly it'll heat up your game, but after the first time the dealer won't assume for you anymore and wait for a hand signal every play. Technically they are supposed to do that anyway.

Just DONT be the shottaker -- that one guy who says he didn't give a hand signal for a hard 19 when the dealer shows 20. That'll make the pit want to throw you out for any reason they can find. You'll get to hit your 19, but it might be the last time for that shift
 
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