Played BJ in Dublin

I vacationed in Dublin this past week and had a chance to visit a casino. It was interesting. The one I went to was close to my hotel. It's more of a private card club. Two stories. The top has the registration, which everyone has to do with either a driver's license or a passport, maybe about 20 slots, and two video roulette. The downstairs had two roulette tables, three blackjack tables, and 4 or 5 poker tables. There was no "pit." The dealers were just against the wall. When I went there, one roulette table was open, and one poker table was about to open. I asked if I could play BJ, and a dealer came out a few minutes later.

Some particulars:
1. 6 decks, no hole card. The dealer also didn't burn the first card after a shuffle.
2. I bet 1 euro for a dealer and I split and won. The dealer took 2 euros and left the other 2 euros on the table. Apparently, the dealers can choose to just let their tips ride.
3. At some point, a man behind me put a 5 euro chip behind my bet. It took me a split second to realize what had happened, but I've heard of such thing, so I didn't make a scene.
4. I split aces, and got a ten on one of them, but the dealer pulled an ace on his ten and apparently dealer "blackjack" always beats a player's "21." It was weird, but meh, take my 3 euros.
5. I was on the second base when I surrendered my 16 against a dealer 10. I was told that next time I need to to that before the first base player makes his move.
6. The dealers seemed to be Eastern European immigrants.

Anyway, I didn't play much. I lost 200 euros ($272), but it was interesting.

Dublin has some very interesting casinos - I hope it was the one with a bookmakers on the ground floor (if not try to find it and enjoy the leather chairs in the bookies and TV screens in the toilets!) I think you can walk to all of them from the centre.

Apart from allowing you to surrender, all you say sounds quite reasonable (except in the UK I've not seen that you can bet for the dealers - you have to tip directly if you want to). It is quite common to back behind. I assume you know the no-peek implies you don't split A's vs A and 8's vs A or 10; also don't double 11 vs A nor 10.

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6. The dealers seemed to be Eastern European immigrants.

So are many of the dealers at the MGM grand.

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Dublin has some very interesting casinos - I hope it was the one with a bookmakers on the ground floor (if not try to find it and enjoy the leather chairs in the bookies and TV screens in the toilets!) I think you can walk to all of them from the centre.

Apart from allowing you to surrender, all you say sounds quite reasonable (except in the UK I've not seen that you can bet for the dealers - you have to tip directly if you want to). It is quite common to back behind. I assume you know the no-peek implies you don't split A's vs A and 8's vs A or 10; also don't double 11 vs A nor 10.

Thats the Sporting Emporium. From the description, doesn't sound like that's where the OP was.

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Thats the Sporting Emporium. From the description, doesn't sound like that's where the OP was.

I was at D1

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I was at D1

thnks for posting this debitncredit, Do you know the max bet and what there highest min bet table was?

I assume it is ES10: Early Surrender except against Ace.
What's the penetration?
What's the maximum?