How to handle Dealer mistakes ...
i play a ton of live PLO, so i'm witnessing a lot of mistakes on a regular basis - bigger and smaller ones. Even the best dealers make mistakes from time to time, and bad dealers make a lot of them. I used to correct everything i saw, but changed my approach on this over time, now do it more deliberately, depending on circumstances. Several reasons for this:
a) don't want the dealer to be pissed at me (nobody likes to be told they made a mistake, work pride, shame in front of the table, etc.)
b) depending on who is it done to (if an ******* at the table doesn't get enough change, i say nothing, if it's a nice guy or a whale who gets shorted, i point it out)
c) if it's a minor thing, and i'm not affected/not in the pot, for example small error in pot calculation (raise from the blinds and blind is added, happens very often still etc.), i stay quiet
How do you guys handle this?
How do you rate my approach from a moral point of view (not consistent correcting, but dependent as described)?
any other ideas?
thx for input
If a dealer makes a mistake regardless of who it affects I will always speak up and make sure the mistake is corrected. To do otherwise is just not right.
I have corrected dealer mistakes when I am in a hand where it costs me a pot. I have corrected dealer mistakes when the person who gained hated me. It makes no difference. The point is that without doing it we allow the game to be awful. More importantly the dealer may be cheating (extremely unlikely I know) and we can't let that happen.
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This story makes no sense. The turn came out early so they redealt the flop??
I mis-wrote it. It was the turn that got re-dealt not the flop. At the time I thought the guy said he checked because he liked the turn and was trying to keep it by acting like he was going to check the flop.
At first I figured that was what you meant, except that after a flop of AQQ I figured no turn card was going to help your hand of 53 very significantly.
Everyone has a level of tolerance and then chooses to become a squeaky wheel as they see fit. A mistake affects both directions of stacks and it would be pretty extraordinary if a Dealer could 'set up' their mistakes to affect a specific Player. Poker is one area where you can't go back and fix things ..
Talk about timing!! I was watching the Commerce PLO stream this week. The announcer is explaining how PLO works during the 5th hand. The pot was $240 and a Player tossed in 3 Blacks. Dealer announces $300 and two Players call. Announcer stops talking and we have dead air .. comes back with "Well, sometimes in a semi-private game the Players just agree to bend the rules a bit!" GL
