Blood Spilled at Table!

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Casino Rama (hour N. of Toronto) yesterday. Play finishing on a hand when the dealer notices something on one of the flop cards. Blood. A small stain, just a globule really. He says, "Let's see everyone's hands." Guy beside me turns his hands over and there is a tiny incision on one of his fingers. He says he handles paper all day and a small papercut must have reopened. Room boss says they have to shut the table down. "What?!?", I say, "It's not like the guy got shot in the face and there is blood spraying wildly all over the place, or that he's trying to mark the cards with his own blood. Just change the deck." Nope, they have to do some kind of complete sanitary spray and wipe-down of the table because we could sue the casino if we caught a disease or infection and knew that the casino saw that there was blood flowing at the table. They send the guy to the nurses station like some kind of stabbing victim and we change to a free table where they can't get the chip rack open. We change again, the whole thing taking close to an hour. Pain in the ass. And it would have been worse if it wasn't about four in the morning when there was a couple of free tables available for our moves. The guy came back with a miniscule bandage on his finger and sucking a lollipop that they must give out to kids they find abandoned in cars in the parking lot.

Thought I'd share. Anyone see any stoppages in play like this?

[cwsiggy]

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I'm sure you wouldn't be complaining if you found out he had AIDS

[Acesover8s]

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I'm sure you wouldn't be complaining if you found out he had AIDS

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Why? Was the player in question planning on raping everyone soon afterward?

[CORed]

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I'm sure you wouldn't be complaining if you found out he had AIDS

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Why? Was the player in question planning on raping everyone soon afterward?

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If he was, I don't think disinfecting the table would help much.

[tdarko]

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The guy came back with a miniscule bandage on his finger and sucking a lollipop

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thats greatness.

p.s. he should have snagged a couple extra lollipops for his tablemates. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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...because we could sue the casino if we caught a disease or infection and knew that the casino saw that there was blood flowing at the table...

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Common sense has yet to stop a lawsuit. If I'm the casino, I do the same thing. It's just the way life's gotten. "Frivolous" is not part of many plaintiff's lawyers' vocabularies.

[SNOWBALL138]

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...because we could sue the casino if we caught a disease or infection and knew that the casino saw that there was blood flowing at the table...


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Common sense has yet to stop a lawsuit. If I'm the casino, I do the same thing. It's just the way life's gotten. "Frivolous" is not part of many plaintiff's lawyers' vocabularies.

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This is an uninformed statement. Good lawyers evaluate cases in terms of expectation. Many cases have almost no upside, and a lot of downside (cost + potential malicious prosecution lawsuit).

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This is an uninformed statement. Good lawyers evaluate cases in terms of expectation. Many cases have almost no upside, and a lot of downside (cost + potential malicious prosecution lawsuit).

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Well, whoooopptie dooooo!

Lemme guess... uh, you're a lawyer, right?

I stand by my statement. Sue me.

[tonypaladino]

It's hard to blame the casino for taking the table out of use. I don't know how the law is in Canada, but in the US Ocupational Safety laws have strict guidlines for bodily fluids cleanup. It is a safety measure. I don't see why it took an hour to open an empty table though.