[MicroBob]

Your experience is interesting.
As i said, I don't know anything about Craps really so I'll take your word for it as you obviously know the game.


The casino I worked at was a break-in place where they put you through the dealing class and then hire you for cheap (everyone wants to put their 6-18 months there so they can get a gig at a higher-paying casino).


After you take the class for BJ and carnival games (Carib-Stud, Let-it-Ride, etc) then you can take an optional class to learn craps.

So a lot of the craps dealers are brand-freaking-new...and on top of that, the casino features $0.25 craps.

So they're stuck trying to calculate 9-to-1 or 11-to-1 on a $0.75 bet or $1.25 on the fly (and would complain about how tough it all was in the break-room).

I suspect there were more mistakes at our place then at most casinos!! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

But, from what I can see, with that many people watching the game I would not be surprised that the team-effort would reduce the error potential significantly compared with blackjack.


FWIW - I don't think Mason was thinking in terms of distracting the dealers to the point of error. I think he really WAS referring to just playing the game honestly...and if they make an error in your favor then 'sucks to be them'.


I wonder if making odd-amount bets might increase this likelihood in Craps (a $13 bet where most players would normally be betting $10).
This is something that can be kind of effective in blackjack.
Because figuring 3:2 on a blackjack when you've bet $37 can confuse some dealers.

they will also make mistakes when they are 'coloring-up' your chips on a win...like if I bet $40 (1 green and 3 red) and win...they owe me $80 so they take 2 of the red of the top (and tap it) and leave me with 3 green and 1 red.

but many dealers will FREQUENTLY screw this up.

and if it's a blackjack on a $162 bet (or a double-for-less or whatever) they can get pretty damn confused pretty fast.

Hell, when I was dealing these types of pay-outs would even screw with my head a little bit sometimes.