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February 28th, 2018 at 5:59:59 PM permalink
Yes 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.
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February 28th, 2018 at 6:06:30 PM permalink
Quote: GlenG

Yes 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.
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February 28th, 2018 at 6:07:45 PM permalink
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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.



I sure hope that is a real story. Thats too good to make up lol
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February 28th, 2018 at 6:15:59 PM permalink
I'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!"
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February 28th, 2018 at 6:22:48 PM permalink
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I'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
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February 28th, 2018 at 6:34:25 PM permalink
Quote: GlenG

I 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.
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February 28th, 2018 at 6:53:17 PM permalink
I've seen the walking around the chair thing many times but not the chicken wing part.
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February 28th, 2018 at 7:04:12 PM permalink
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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.

I do a really good chicken cluck. Maybe I’ll try this next time I’m in Vegas.
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February 28th, 2018 at 7:20:52 PM permalink
Quote: GlenG

Yes 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.

Watchmewin must have been in town that day.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
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February 28th, 2018 at 7:22:41 PM permalink
Quote: miplet

I 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
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March 4th, 2018 at 11:58:18 PM permalink
I'm pretty sure I used my personal dumbest the other day-- "Time to go. Every time my drink shows up, a losing streak begins. I'll be back in like 15 minutes." (Which was true; at least for the three other tables I was at earlier that day.)

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.
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March 5th, 2018 at 1:27:37 AM permalink
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Deal 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.
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March 5th, 2018 at 2:11:49 AM permalink
I know dealers can get upset at barber poles or too many of one color or weird bet amounts but usually if a player has black chips dealers will let him get away with anything in the hopes they will get a tip.

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.
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March 5th, 2018 at 4:09:28 AM permalink
Usually IDGAF until they start yapping about it to me. I was playing craps once for fun, and this guy kept telling me to pull my bets down after 3 rolls. Everyone's got their own superstitions, that's fine, but actually telling me and sweating my action is a weird thing, especially when the guy wasn't even playing.

There's a high concentration of weirdos on craps as opposed to every other table game.
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March 5th, 2018 at 4:46:46 AM permalink
Everyone knows once they order a fill the players start losing.
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March 5th, 2018 at 4:56:34 AM permalink
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There'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.
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March 5th, 2018 at 8:08:40 AM permalink
As 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.
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March 5th, 2018 at 8:24:10 AM permalink
All craps superstitiions are "dumb," I suppose, and all defy logic.

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.
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March 5th, 2018 at 11:23:06 AM permalink
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As far as my superstitions go: I have 2 pair of superman boxer briefs

Of course you do.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
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March 5th, 2018 at 11:48:47 AM permalink
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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

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).
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March 5th, 2018 at 12:29:05 PM permalink
Quote: Romes

As 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.....
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March 5th, 2018 at 1:06:22 PM permalink
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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).



Yes, that is what I said.

Girl good, boy bad.
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March 5th, 2018 at 3:06:53 PM permalink
Someone at a poker table accused me of being superstitious because I got up whenever there was a dealer change. He wouldn’t believe me that I was just stretching my legs. Frankly, I don’t get how some guys can sit at the tables for hours without stretching at least occasionally.




Quote: djatc

There's a high concentration of weirdos on craps as opposed to every other table game.

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...
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March 5th, 2018 at 3:50:09 PM permalink
Quote: MaxPen

Why am I not surprised.....

Too slow.





BAM!! LOL.

Nope, not gay at all.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
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March 5th, 2018 at 4:22:20 PM permalink
How much did you get paid for the modeling job ?
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April 7th, 2018 at 3:38:21 PM permalink
I've seen two:

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.
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April 7th, 2018 at 3:52:44 PM permalink
Quote: KevinAA

I'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
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April 7th, 2018 at 3:55:35 PM permalink
Does the counterpart to this thread exist yet?
Smartest Superstitions. Those are the ones we need to share.
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April 7th, 2018 at 3:57:35 PM permalink
Quote: billryan

Does the counterpart to this thread exist yet?
Smartest Superstitions. Those are the ones we need to share.



Smartest supersitions, sounds like an oxymoron.
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April 7th, 2018 at 4:08:48 PM permalink
You can call them oxytocin is you want, as long as they work.
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April 7th, 2018 at 9:25:04 PM permalink
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You 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: GlenG

When 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. ._.
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April 8th, 2018 at 3:37:10 PM permalink
Everyone is losing and the table is cold because I'm jinxing them by betting the dark side.

I get that now and then.
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