Another "You make the call" post

[DimensionPresident]

I cringe every time I see someone put the blame on the player for a dealer's mistake.

Is it too much to expect of a dealer to pull his head out of his ass every now and then and pay attention to what's going on?

The people who take the hard line stance on the rule of "once the cards hit the muck, they're dead... no exeptions!" even when it's clearly the dealers fault aren't being realistic.

Ponder this situation: You're the perfect player. You chip your cards every hand. Out of nowhere, a dealer takes your cards (despite the chip being on top of it), and throws them into the muck. What do you do then? What if it's a million dollar hand and you were sitting on the nuts? OOPS! SORRY! Hand hit the muck, it's dead.

If you're all so cut and dry with this rule, and don't want to make the dealers take any responsibility for their own actions, then the only thing that's left is to point a loaded 9MM at the dealers head at all times and pull the trigger the second he gets near your cards when you don't want him to.

You people act like a little chip on your cards is going to prevent a mistake 100% of the time. I am going to guess that throughout the course of time there's been more than one hand accidently mucked that had a chip on it. And when that happens, it's the dealer's / casino's responsibility to make ammends. If not in the hand itself, then out of their own pockets.