Casino staff missteps that benefited/amused you

I am not necessarily talking just about miscounting chips on payout, but also about an act of clumsyness or foot in mouth disease that you found funny or that benefited your play.

I think we’ve all seen the silly things like dealers fumbling chips and card shuffling that scatters them all over the table without doing any harm (except for embarrassing the dealer and slowing the game a little). I have joked with them and said, “if you are going to throw chips at us, at least use the purple ones”.

The one incident that stands out in my mind was on a $5 Carribean Stud game at one of the Indiana riverboats. The dealer went to set my cards in front of me, fumbled them, tried to hang on to them and wound up throwing them on the bump stop that runs around the edge of the table. She almost freaked out, but they landed face down back in the felt. Because of that, I was allowed to play them, much to my benefit. Quad 10s for a $300 payout (dealer did not qualify). I would have been upset if the cards had gone over the bump stop and onto the floor, causing a misdeal.

I went to a Monday Night Football Halloween Game at Circus-Circus. The ads said if you wore a costume, you got free drinks and food. I, being cheap, bought a $2 plastic Viking helmet from the kids' store downstairs. Since the Vikings were playing, I figured I was good. My girlfriend at the time was British and had actually bought a Fembot costume from the Austin Powers movies. So I wore my stupid helmet and she wore the whole costume, which is a gold mini with a long blond wig. Being naturally endowed, she didn't need much costume help to simulate the machine-guns-in-chest.

Anyway, she was about eight years younger than me, and halfway through the game, Circus management came over and told me (not her) that she'd "have to leave because it was a family-oriented property." They thought she was a hooker. I stood up, put my arm around one of the guys, and said, "You, my friend, are a horse's ass."

Well, then they went and got security, and I pointed out that the Miller Light girls hosting the event looked a lot more like hookers than my girlfriend. They had skimpier outfits and camped-up makeup. So we argued, but then the people sitting around us told the Circus staff they knew she was a Fembot from the beginning. Hadn't the security guys seen Austin Powers?

Anyway, we won a drawing for a couple hundred, so maybe it was worth the hassle, but it was kind of funny.

At a poker tournament at The Bicycle in LA, if cards fall off the table there is a player penalty of one round (dealer button around the table one time), and the casino must change out the deck to prevent "card switching."

I am in seat #1, to the left of dealer, and when the dealer dealt my second card to me (she's right next to me, dont forget) she fumbles and the card falls to the floor.

we call the floorman, and when the floorman steps over the dealer says "card on the floor."

floorman says "thats a one round penalty."

we all laugh as we point to the dealer and say "go!!"