Worst plays you've ever witnessed
Quote: AcesAndEightsWell I've got one that trumps anything so far, although doubling on a hard 15 is pretty awesomely hilarious.
I was playing a $10 face-down DD game and some guy and his wife? girlfriend? mistress? not sure came in and sat down, and she had never played blackjack before in her life, obviously. She was having a hell of a time with the face-down signals (scratch the felt, tuck the cards, etc.) and the dealer kept having to tell her what to do, and she wouldn't do it, and the dealer would have to tell her again, and eventually actually demonstrate with this idiot woman's cards what to do.
Anyway the best came when the woman takes a hit, gets a face card (I think) and then tucks her cards (amazing she figured out these actions). When the dealer comes around and reveals all the hole cards after resolving her hard, she reveals this woman had an ace...and a face card in her hand. Yep, she took a hit on a blackjack.
She won the hand with a total of 21 but was only paid even money, of course.
Hah, great photo. I'm too intimidated to play a face-down blackjack game. I'm worried I'll mistakenly grab the cards with two hands and the dealer will banish me to hades for eternity. Thanks to the Wizards videos I took a chance at 3CP. I checked my hand like I normally would at a live poker game and the dealer went berzerk. He said I bent the cards too much. They had to bring in a whole new deck. Really bad play.
Quote: WongBoI was covering my action at a table full of college guys last weekend
and saw all of the following moves in the course of the night.
Hitting hard 17 vs. 8
Standing on 14 vs. 9
Doubling on 5-3 vs. J
Splitting 4-4 vs. 7
Splitting 9-9 vs. A
That was a typo...it was 9-9 vs. Q
A guy gets the 7-7 Suited against a dealer 7. If he draws a third suited 7, he wins $1000, and everybody at the table wins $50. The guy REFUSED to hit the 7-7 with only a $15 bet up. He didn't draw the 7, but the dealer and other players begged him not to make the split.
Quote: WongBo...saw...
(i) Hitting hard 17 vs. 8 ...
(v) Splitting 9-9 vs. A
Actually while these look bad plays, on rare occasions it can be correct to hit a hard 17 vs 8 and I'm told in the US if the count is high it's worth splitting 9s vs A. I see standing on 14 all the time in the UK - I think it must be based on pontoon or a basic desire to stay in the game.
Quote: charliepatrickActually while these look bad plays, on rare occasions it can be correct to hit a hard 17 vs 8 and I'm told in the US if the count is high it's worth splitting 9s vs A. I see standing on 14 all the time in the UK - I think it must be based on pontoon or a basic desire to stay in the game.
I'd like to think that I'd be long gone before I had to consider hitting a hard 17 against an 8.
Once it was just the two of us at the table, he asked me to let him know when he should play three hands. I told him that whenever I stopped playing would be a good time.
I enjoyed playing with him and he helped me in a couple of ways by eating cards in negative counts and driving everyone else away from the table. I wish I could clone this guy!
