Being Overserved!?!??!?!?!?

Just a quick question for the forum.

Have any of you been "Cut-off" by a casino pit/bar? I thought this was a total myth until it actually happened to me and a few friends about 4 years ago. It was at the Plaza downtown and we started to imbibe around 6am, and we noticed that the pit bosses requested they not serve us booze around 3pm. We of course, sobered up and they resumed serving us a few hours later.

I was just wondering if this has ever happened to anyone.........btw, we weren't sitting at the bar pounding shots, or getting into fights or anything...........we had our wits about us, but we did consume a lot of beverages whilst playing table games.

I've seen it before. You don't have to be at the bar to get loud and obnoxious to the point where it's obvious you've had too many.

When it comes to liquor licensing, and more importantly, liability insurance, anyone in the establishment, including other patrons, can recommend that a patron be cut off. Of course, it's up to a manager to actually make the decision. A pit boss probably does have that authority.

I've seen it happen twice before in Vegas. I wrote the details in another post a while back.

I've not only seen people be cut off (it happens a LOT in the midwest), I've also seen the security escort the patrons out of the casino completely because of drinking too much.

I was at one casino where a guy had been permanently cut off from alcohol by the casino and he would bring a pill bottle filled with whiskey and add it to his drinks.

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I've seen it happen twice before in Vegas. I wrote the details in another post a while back.

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i've been told by the boxman at hooters im being cut off from drinking and if i throw another no roll ill be backed off from the table. It was about 8am and there was probably more alcohol than blood in my system.

Yep, happened to a friend of mine on a recent trip to a local casino. Thing was he was more tired than drunk...we were on the 2nd day of gambling bender, and he appearantly appeared as though he was going to fall asleep at the table. Food and bev manager came by and told him no more booze. We left and found another gambling/drinking establishment and continued on.

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I've not only seen people be cut off (it happens a LOT in the midwest), I've also seen the security escort the patrons out of the casino completely because of drinking too much.

I was at one casino where a guy had been permanently cut off from alcohol by the casino and he would bring a pill bottle filled with whiskey and add it to his drinks.

lol im from the midwest too. it definitely feels like theres nothing else to do out there but drink. i honestly cant remember too many activities i engaged in that didnt involve alchohol.

By the way, they didn't ask us to stop gambling...........we were free to gamble as much as we wanted. They just had the waitresses skip our tables when getting drink orders. I am kinda glad they did, because it allowed us to sober up a bit and enjoy another 12+ hours of drinking afterwards

This is amazing to me. "You're too inebriated for us to serve you more alcohol. BUT, you are not inebriated enough that we must cut you off from gambling as well." Isn't there some sort of law that casinos aren't supposed to allow obviously inebriated customers to continue gambling? Isn't that some of the defense in the Watanabe case?

Its a fine line. The casino wants the action, the dealer wants tips and the Tray Lizard wants her tips yet there comes a point where the casino is really saying 'no more booze right now' and giving someone an opportunity to not get too drunk as to be more of a problem either as to obnoxiousness or bankroll issues.

Quiet drunks probably are not 86'd quite as readily as noisy ones. Lousy tippers probably get 86'd well before good tippers do.

Dealers take a great deal of abuse from sober people and from drunks, but there really are limits but as with everything else in a casino the main determinant seems to be the bankroll.

I don't think any casino personnel deserves to take any kind of abuse, and abusive people should be kicked out regardless of drunkenness.

And I agree it's a fine line. I just think it's a strange line. If the casino has a responsibility to cut off people from gambling if they are too inebriated, then if they are cutting off people from alcohol for being too inebriated, it stands to reason that the same people should be cut off from gambling as well. I sort of mentioned something in another thread about alcohol, but it also occurs to me that if the person is staying at the casino, should they be allowed to drink more, since you know for a fact they won't be going out and driving somewhere else?

I don't think there is any good or easy solution. I guess part of my problem with understanding things is that I'm not a drinker. Thus, I don't quite see the joy in drinking so much as to be cut off in the first place. I just think if I were cut off, I'd be annoyed by it, especially seeing as how the casino is more than willing to keep taking my gambling money, just not my alcohol money.

My golf group was in Biloxi at The Beau Rivage. There were four of us at a table together, with one stranger guy. We were drunk and loud and having way too much fun. The floorman came over and said, "No more drinks at this table." The stranger guy said, "But I don't even KNOW these guys!"

So not only were we cut off, we caught some guy with collateral damage! lol