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Originally Posted by DaytonPoker
Agree on the dealers and play of blackjack in general. I played maybe 50 hands and saw some wild stuff. Lots of splitting face cards and hitting and busting with 5 and 6s showing. The dealer encouraging a player to split 4s with a face card was interesting. Same dealer also looked at me like I was crazy when I asked for a hit on 14 with an 8 showing. He also forgot to look for an ace in the hole and we played a hand with the dealer having blackjack. My favorite was when a lady had aces and he let her split them a 3rd time. She got a King on her 3rd hand, and of course got paid 3:2 on it. Pretty funny stuff.
I would say I made about $400 on dealer errors alone (bulk of that being a hand where I doubled down a $60 bet and lost, only to get paid $120 and kept my losing bets). Plus it's a huge advantage when they misdeal in a way that everyone gets cards (say they forgot to deal a dealer hole card the first time through), call the floor, and the floor instructs everyone that the next card is the dealer's and they can play the hand if they choose. I got out of a few 14's against face card type situations by pulling bets back.
I guess that's what you get when your dealers have unpaid training for a few months and only get a $300 bonus...??? No real incentve to learn the game and how to deal.