Dumbest Superstitions
Dealing craps at my old casino in Missouri, the A/C is pretty loud and it happened to be near the craps table. You can hear it every time it kicks on...one of our regulars truly believed that the casino kicks the A/C on every time a good roll is about to happen, as to circulate air through the table to cause 7 outs...So he had his bets off or no action until it turned off.
Quote: GlenGYes i already know that i need a tin foil hat to visit this forum sometimes (sorry, not sorry). But what are some of the craziest superstitions you've witnessed people say, or might even believed in?
Dealing craps at my old casino in Missouri, the A/C is pretty loud and it happened to be near the craps table. You can hear it every time it kicks on...one of our regulars truly believed that the casino kicks the A/C on every time a good roll is about to happen, as to circulate air through the table to cause 7 outs...So he had his bets off or no action until it turned off.
When I was playing a lot of Fortune PGP at Hilton LV, people believed that if you were on an extended losing streak, you could turn it around by walking around your chair 3 times clockwise, clucking like a chicken and making wing movements with your thumbs tucked into your armpits.
Saw it done at least 1/2 dozen times. Sometimes people laughed embarrassed as they did it, but they did it.
Quote: beachbumbabsWhen I was playing a lot of Fortune PGP at Hilton LV, people believed that if you were on an extended losing streak, you could turn it around by walking around your chair 3 times clockwise, clucking like a chicken and making wing movements with your thumbs tucked into your armpits.
Saw it done at least 1/2 dozen times. Sometimes people laughed embarrassed as they did it, but they did it.
I sure hope that is a real story. Thats too good to make up lol
So they would demand to be paid in either ALL red chips or ALL Greens and would have upwards of $5000 in those chips in front of them. One man even denied coloring up over $2000 in Red Chips when he was done playing, put all the chips into a giant plastic bag and said "I'll come back in a few months when I feel lucky again!"
Quote: BedWetterBetterI've seen people refuse color ups because "Black/Green Chips are Bad Luck!"
So they would demand to be paid in either ALL red chips or ALL Greens and would have upwards of $5000 in those chips in front of them. One man even denied coloring up over $2000 in Red Chips when he was done playing, put all the chips into a giant plastic bag and said "I'll come back in a few months when I feel lucky again!"
Deal to these people all the time. I don't and never have let them. Always 150ish in red at all time max
Quote: GlenGI sure hope that is a real story. Thats too good to make up lol
Really really happened.
They had PGP tournamentso 2x a year there. You had to be playing the Fortune bet for $5 and get at least a FH to qualify. Then you filled out an entry form, they certified you had the qualifier, and you would get RFB comped along with the entry fee for the weekend. Think I went to maybe 6 over 4-5 years, late '90s to early '00s.
It tended to be a lot of the same people. They were the ones who spread this superstition. And I never saw it anywhere besides HLV.
I do a really good chicken cluck. Maybe I’ll try this next time I’m in Vegas.Quote: beachbumbabsWhen I was playing a lot of Fortune PGP at Hilton LV, people believed that if you were on an extended losing streak, you could turn it around by walking around your chair 3 times clockwise, clucking like a chicken and making wing movements with your thumbs tucked into your armpits.
Saw it done at least 1/2 dozen times. Sometimes people laughed embarrassed as they did it, but they did it.
Watchmewin must have been in town that day.Quote: GlenGYes i already know that i need a tin foil hat to visit this forum sometimes (sorry, not sorry). But what are some of the craziest superstitions you've witnessed people say, or might even believed in?
Dealing craps at my old casino in Missouri, the A/C is pretty loud and it happened to be near the craps table. You can hear it every time it kicks on...one of our regulars truly believed that the casino kicks the A/C on every time a good roll is about to happen, as to circulate air through the table to cause 7 outs...So he had his bets off or no action until it turned off.
Quote: mipletI do a really good chicken cluck. Maybe I’ll try this next time I’m in Vegas.
Definitely. Let me know when I'll join you haha
Best part was that the other guy at the table thought it was so ridiculous that he played a second hand, just to prove I'm nuts. 20, 20... and a dealer BJ. He wasn't nearly as amused as I was.
Quote: GlenGDeal to these people all the time. I don't and never have let them. Always 150ish in red at all time max
Just pay that sh** color for color, then “accidentally” knock over their chips and let them clean it up.
I don’t remember what the buy in was, but I ended up pushing like 7 stacks (I felt like a roulette dealer) to a player, then figured screw this, and just knocked it all over seemingly accidentally. Player wasn’t impressed, but I sure as hell was that I could sell it as an accident so well.
If someone makes me work extra hard for something that’s stupid, I’ll make ‘em work 10x harder. My favorite thing to say to confusing bets was “what i don’t understand can you speak up there?” and tell the stick “move the dice” right after, then “sorry dice are out, you need to put your bets in when dice are in the middle. No bet.” I’m not gonna try to figure out what the hell $79 across is.
I dealt to a guy who only wanted black chips. If the payout had green or lower then he’d have us drop it. He was a nice guy, just odd. Another guy only wanted black and would do stuff like $2k pass/come + $2k odds, all black, he was an a**hole, but the all-black just made it over the top.
In Biloxi, I once told a dealer not to pay me in dirty chips but I soon realized he didn't know what a dirty chip was (and probably would not have tapped a losing chip on his stack anyway). This was post Katrina and a lot of neophytes had just been hired.
Chicken clucking... no. Not I. Sorry. Wouldn't even walk around the chair three times except if I was three sheets to the wind and trying to get onto a bj chair. The PGP chairs are at a nice height though usually.
Dumbest one I ever heard of was rubbing a dwarf's bald head. Even more dumb when the dwarf didn't like the woman doing that before she rolled the dice.
Of course I still think it was the dealer's "you are all over the place" comment that caused the next roll to be a Seven when I was on the pass line and had just made come bets that put me on every number. If only she had kept her mouth shut the shooter would have kept hitting numbers. I'm not really very superstitious though. I just don't like to lose.
There's a high concentration of weirdos on craps as opposed to every other table game.
Quote: djatcThere's a high concentration of weirdos on craps as opposed to every other table game.
Ugh there’s a type....short, fat, sweaty, beet red face, wearing oversized sports jersey...taking up 4 racks chip racks of space at a crowded table and flipping out when anyone new tries to squeeze in.
I think craps is one of the more fun games when playing for fun...but oh man the players do suck.
A few in particular:
Turning off your bets if one or both of the dice leave the table;
Betting heavily on a shooter if it is a "virgin" woman who has never rolled dem bones before, and not betting on a "virgin" guy;
Getting mad and believing it is a jinx if anyone says the word "seven;"
And my favorite: believing that how one grips and tosses the dice can actually influence the outcome in a way which favors the shooter.
Of course you do.Quote: RomesAs far as my superstitions go: I have 2 pair of superman boxer briefs
No, no, no! You misunderstand. The woman is a "virgin" (good thing) at the game. The guy is a "rookie" (never to be relied upon).Quote: MrVBetting heavily on a shooter if it is a "virgin" woman who has never rolled dem bones before, and not betting on a "virgin" guy
Quote: RomesAs far as my superstitions go: I have 2 pair of superman boxer briefs (deal with it) that I happen to of warn the first few times we played bigger money (and won). So while I don't really care, it forever sticks in my memory every time I pack for a playing trip I'll pack them as well, for the giggles.
Why am I not surprised.....
Quote: DocNo, no, no! You misunderstand. The woman is a "virgin" (good thing) at the game. The guy is a "rookie" (never to be relied upon).
Yes, that is what I said.
Girl good, boy bad.
Weirdos? The most superstitious people in a casino are found at a craps table. Of course, sometimes it’s the guys inside the pit that are most superstitious...Quote: djatcThere's a high concentration of weirdos on craps as opposed to every other table game.
Too slow.Quote: MaxPenWhy am I not surprised.....
BAM!! LOL.
Nope, not gay at all.
1) Rubbing the screen on a slot machine (happens so frequently I fear for humanity's sake)
2) Sitting at a video keno machine that pays less than another keno machine in the same casino. I saw this once and I overheard the woman tell someone "I won at this machine before, so it's lucky!" She was waiting on an attendant to pay her $1,600. I guess this is the reason casinos install video keno and video poker machine with different paytables. Let the idiots play the lower paytables while I go paytable shopping.
Quote: KevinAAI've seen two:
1) Rubbing the screen on a slot machine (happens so frequently I fear for humanity's sake)
When they kiss their fingers first before doing so haha
Smartest Superstitions. Those are the ones we need to share.
Quote: billryanDoes the counterpart to this thread exist yet?
Smartest Superstitions. Those are the ones we need to share.
Smartest supersitions, sounds like an oxymoron.
Quote: billryanYou can call them oxytocin is you want, as long as they work.
"If it helps to turn your hat around during a poker game—then it helps. It is irrelevant that the hat has no magic powers."
I've taken up those annoying 6:5 video BJ machines lately since they seem the be the only thing I get a fair shot at... Doesn't matter if the nearby table is <1%HE if variance wants to beat you over the head.
Quote: GlenGWhen they kiss their fingers first before doing so haha
One time I saw a woman do a full palm lick, rub it all over the screen... Then do the same thing for the next press. She must have the most robust immune system on the planet. ._.
