What's the Worst Mistake You've EVER Made or Seen a Dealer Make at a Poker Table?

Yesterday a dealer gave me back my mucked cards and told me I was the BB, then proceeded to tell me I was the BB the NEXT HAND because he had made a mistake (there was a dead button due to elimination)
I can think of all types of mistakes I've made. I folded JJ in a 3 way all in face up to develop a table image, the problem was there was somebody left to act BEHIND me.
numerous string bets, betting with my chips half way over the line, but nothing serious or intentional.
has anyone here ever seen a serious/costly mistake?

I dealt myself a wheel on the flop the other night. From the wrong deck. Lol.

I have seen the dealer mucking the cards of a play that is in the hand, giving the pot to the player who lost the hand. But the worst error that a dealer can do is to talking with the players at the table because this can lead others erros.

I've seen dealer do all sort of crap at the tables. I even see one guy slapped the dealer, yes for real, too bad I got out before I could see the dealer reaction , worst mistake I've seen was one dealer picking their nose and dealing cards lol good thing I walked with my gloves that day. Like seriously how can you concentrate with that kind of pressure, you are the dealer , everyone eyes is on you , if you have to do it, atleast do it when no on is watching

I was sat at a 6 max cash table in my local casino, when the dealer farted so loudly, everyone at the table just instantly looked at her, poor girl. She probably thought she could get away with a sly little one but it was like a fighter jet flying past HA!

When the dealer mistakenly tells the wrong amount to call to another player. Mostly, girl dealer is prone to this.

The croupier showed the second card of the player to deal on a desiccated table was a k and and the first card dealt was an ace both of the same suit

The dealer was letting these two guys speak Russian to each other while one was still in the hand deciding whether or not to call is all in bet on the river

a player in the bb put in a single 25 chip to call a raise of 13. The dealer said that because he already had two chips in the pot (his bb) that the 25 chip counts as a raise. This is wrong as a single chip is a call unless stated verbally, the guy was clearly a new player and didn't want to take his bb out himself. This opened the action for the raiser to go allin and get called by some weak hand. I was the raiser and felt really bad for him but I really couldn't defend him in that situation as I wanted his money more

crdalchemy93 said:

a player in the bb put in a single 25 chip to call a raise of 13. The dealer said that because he already had two chips in the pot (his bb) that the 25 chip counts as a raise. This is wrong as a single chip is a call unless stated verbally, the guy was clearly a new player and didn't want to take his bb out himself. This opened the action for the raiser to go allin and get called by some weak hand. I was the raiser and felt really bad for him but I really couldn't defend him in that situation as I wanted his money more

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This could go either way but a case can be made for a raise. The one chip rule does not count for the BB, only the SB. However, when facing a raise beforehand is where it gets tricky, but I would probably rule it a call based on Rule #1 since the guy was a newbie.

I will expand on this because after rereading it may sound strange.

Though it is sort-of non -standard, there are places that will rule that a raise because they do not follow the "previous bet chips not pulled in" rule and therefor the "one chip rule" does not apply. And though even very non-standard, there are games that do not use the "one chip rule" at all.

Once in live tournament the dealer fold my cards. They was protected with chips also my cards were A K suited

detroitjunkie said:

I will expand on this because after rereading it may sound strange.

Though it is sort-of non -standard, there are places that will rule that a raise because they do not follow the "previous bet chips not pulled in" rule and therefor the "one chip rule" does not apply. And though even very non-standard, there are games that do not use the "one chip rule" at all.

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I understood all of it and agree. As the original poster is from canada I can tell you that poker rooms vary in their implementation of rules and the rules that the casino uses for poker. Even casinos run by the same parent company have vary rules in their poker rooms, even though the parent company stipulates that all their poker rooms must be run the same. My guess is that if the guy had pulled back his bb it would have been call but you can never tell in Canada. I have played in very well run poker room and very poorly run rooms were you can't even rely on the floor to be competent.

I haven't seen too many major mistakes personally but numerous small mistakes, mostly due to inexperienced and poorly trained dealers. I was heads up in a tournament one time and the dealer didn't know who to deal to first and then forgot 2 hands in, I found it amusing. It wasn't his fault he had only started training for dealing poker and had been pulled from BJ that night because they were short dealers. He had a very good pitch and was better than some of the "experienced" dealers at that casino.

Bad Push

This happened when I was fairly new to live play. In fact I was fairly new to poker all together. I had a friend who played often. On occasion he would take me to our local brick and mortar and he would pay my buy in. If I won then I would give him a percentage of my winnings. I was sitting at a 1-1 No Limit table. I had just sat down. I do not remember the exacts of the hand, but I do remember enough. I had a pocket pair. If memory serves me right , "Fish Hooks." I hit a set on the flop. Betting ensued and by the time we were at the turn I remember the board was starting to flush. I pushed all in. I was called. The pot was monster.

The river brought a 4th flush card. Dude turned over the Ace for the runner-runner flush. When I saw his Ace for the flush I was soooo mentally broken and destroyed. I turned my hand over. The dealer started pushing the chips towards the guy with the flush. Then out of nowhere my friend who bankrolled me came walking by. He looked at the table, and then he looked at me and said, "Nice full house."

I was so upset at the board going runner-runner on my set that I failed to see the last flush card paired the board. I jumped out of my seat for joy and exclaimed, "Ya I have a boat!" I immediately started reaching for the chips that the dealer was pushing to my mute opponent.

No body at the table said a word as the dealer pushed the chips to the wrong person. If it weren't for the serendipitous timing of my friend the villain would have made off with my entire stack just a few hands into my session. Nobody at the table had any clue the guy who walked by and pointed out that I had the winner was my friend. The look on my opponent's face was priceless.

To this day I am still convinced that a small amount of my chips were already stacked before I was told I won the hand, but I learned my lesson. When it comes right down to it I am responsible for reading my hand, but shame on that dealer.

Were sure that your opponent has no chips and turned his cards thinking that he put everything, and it turned out that he had chips in my winning hand was extended.

All bad mistakes from dealers come out of lack of training or plain stupidity.

The main one is not been able to distinguish who won the hand, with the tricky ones, as 2 pairs and A in play when another player has a higher pair.

Second, allowing players to speak a language different than the official language everybody understands. Ex: Chinese, Russian, Spanish. etc. it will allow players to exchange information about their hands and plan strategies among them. :deal:

FutherMucker said:

This happened when I was fairly new to live play. In fact I was fairly new to poker all together. I had a friend who played often. On occasion he would take me to our local brick and mortar and he would pay my buy in. If I won then I would give him a percentage of my winnings. I was sitting at a 1-1 No Limit table. I had just sat down. I do not remember the exacts of the hand, but I do remember enough. I had a pocket pair. If memory serves me right , "Fish Hooks." I hit a set on the flop. Betting ensued and by the time we were at the turn I remember the board was starting to flush. I pushed all in. I was called. The pot was monster.

The river brought a 4th flush card. Dude turned over the Ace for the runner-runner flush. When I saw his Ace for the flush I was soooo mentally broken and destroyed. I turned my hand over. The dealer started pushing the chips towards the guy with the flush. Then out of nowhere my friend who bankrolled me came walking by. He looked at the table, and then he looked at me and said, "Nice full house."

I was so upset at the board going runner-runner on my set that I failed to see the last flush card paired the board. I jumped out of my seat for joy and exclaimed, "Ya I have a boat!" I immediately started reaching for the chips that the dealer was pushing to my mute opponent.

No body at the table said a word as the dealer pushed the chips to the wrong person. If it weren't for the serendipitous timing of my friend the villain would have made off with my entire stack just a few hands into my session. Nobody at the table had any clue the guy who walked by and pointed out that I had the winner was my friend. The look on my opponent's face was priceless.

To this day I am still convinced that a small amount of my chips were already stacked before I was told I won the hand, but I learned my lesson. When it comes right down to it I am responsible for reading my hand, but shame on that dealer.

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Happens all the time. Some times its dealers fault when they are not paying attention. Other times, I wonder whether they do it deliberately. Whatever, must pay attention because we are on our own. No one at the table even when they know what's happening will cry a foul because they don't care.

Ya after that happened I learned. Now I always pay attention. In fact there was a time well after this one. Almost the same situation, but I had been playing long enough to read the board and my hand. I was trapping with the boat. My opponent walked right in to my trap. When he turned his cards over and I mine the dealer saw his two pair hand she started to push the chips to the wrong guy. I was like, "whoa whoa whoa!" As I was protesting the wrong push this time someone else at the table actually spoke up.
"He has a full house," he proclaimed.
As soon as the player at the table not involved in the hand said this another player said, " Oh he knew he had a boat" referring to me as he saw me grabbing the chips like HEY!
I shot the dealer a look. They dealer sheepishly apologized. I told the dealer, "No tip for you" then laughed.

I'd say something at a table if I saw the dealer make an obvious error when I'm out of the hand. The dealer won't learn otherwise. Letting errors go by is bad for everyone. If you see errors and say nothing hoping that an error will be made in your favour later on, I consider that a form of cheating.

Dealers at my local casino aren't too adept at split pot games.

Multiple times they have awarded big pots incorrectly (even over objections from players!)

Luckily they will go to the cameras and get it sorted out if anyone complains.

Unfortunately the regulars use the dealer incompetence to try to take advantage of less experienced players.

They will not act like the dealer did nothing wrong and no one will speak up if the mistake benefits one of them.

Very suspicious, but if their opponents aren't paying attention that is on them!

Relax, I know how karma/law of balance acts. If they use the dealer's mistake to take advantage of someone, one day someone will use it to take advantage of them. You receive what you give.

I think every newbie has made the one chip mistake when playing for the first time in a casino. I have.