This isn't blackjack?

[Muses_nightmare]

This is something that happens so often that I classify it as sucky, if it didn't happen every night I'm on Three-card poker it would be a brain burp, but it's just people not paying attention.

Anyway,


This is what a Three-card poker table layout looks like, basically, the one at my casino is a bit different in some minor ways, but that's the basic layout.


This is the basic layout of a blackjack table, ours is a bit different, we have a side bet on it and a couple other minor things.

Okay, so note these things on the tables:

Three card table has three-card poker written on the table

Blackjack table has "blackjack pays 3 to 2" written on the table.

Note the layout of the Three-card table and the layout of the blackjack table

Now, explain to me how people manage to consistently mistake Three-card for blackjack. We even have a sign that is lit up that says Three-card Poker. And there are still people who don't realize it's not blackjack until either I have to correct their bet, or the cards are delt, three at a time, face down on the table.

They don't even have to read....just look at the table layouts.

The same things happens on Texas Shootout, which to be fair has a closer layout to blackjack, but still has a glowing sign that says what the game is. It is rather amusing when you start dealing, because players get 4 cards face down on shootout, so the people that think it's blackjack look horribly surprised.

Also on another note, the people that toss their chips up, especially when doing double downs and splits on blackjack, because it messes up the chips, and slows the game down because if you knock over your chips or end up with them stacked I have to call Pit to fix it. Telling me to "just go ahead and do it and stop wasting time" isn't going to work, because I need to keep this job and doing things like fixing mistakes on my own without calling the Pit could get me fired. That is all.

[crashhelmet]

I was drunk at a Baccarrat(sp?) table once and thought I was playing Black Jack. I kept trying to figure out why the hell people were writing things down.

CH

[Muses_nightmare]

Well, when someone's drunk they kind of have an excuse, it's the completely sober people that I get doing this all the time that boggle my mind.

[smileyeagle1021]

Muses, I so need to play on one of your tables one of these days... simply so you can have someone who actually knows how to play the games

so... when's the next time you deal either Blackjack or Pai Gow Poker

[Tuxian]

I have the same thing happen to me off and on. I was once dealing on a Texas Hold'em Bonus table, which has the following features:

6 playing spots, all shaped like the state of Texas, with 4 circles on them labelled "Ante" "Flop" "Turn" and "River" in the 'lower' half of the state, colored a dark red, and the top half of the state is blue, with the word BONUS written on the 'handle'.

A big red sign that states the name of the game.

And yet one night, an older man sat down, bought in for $100, places his bet in the Ante. So far, so good. So I deal the cards out. Dude's on the first spot. To stay in the hand, you have to place a second wager on the Flop, or you can fold.

Dude takes his cards and tucks them under his Ante. When I ask if he wants to flop or fold, he looks me dead in the face and almost yells out, "You mean this isn't twenty-one?!"

No, it isn't. As you should very well have known before pulling out your cash, dipwad.

Idiot stands up and stalks off, so I collect his cards and his ante.

Here's the funny thing... he had K-Q. Flop was K-Q-8. He'd have won, had he stayed.