If I’m not mistaken, there have been several cases in which casinos have refused to pay large jackpots to winners of computerized progressive-slot games, claiming that software bugs were responsible for the large payouts.
Depends on what their contract says.
What they were witnessing was totally inept group from the casino manager to the dealer. After the second hand, the dealer should have noticed and called in the floor manager to close the table and inspect the cards. To further add insult to injury, why would they take anyone’s word the decks were pre-shuffled? Never assume anything, especially when it comes to money being involved.
Depends entirely on the contract to buy the cards and the specification. But I doubt the playing card manufacturer is liable for anything more than the cost of the cards. . . and that is only for not delivering product to spec. . .
the casino side is laughable. And that their dealers couldn’t figure out what was wrong is ridiculous. The casino deserves to lose this one
House rules? House Rules.
Casino doesn’t shuffle their own cards? Almost as stupid as gambling at online Casinos.
Here, let me wire you 50 bucks, then I’ll call you and you tell me if I win or not.
Ya, cuz the casino would listen a customer complaint about “quick dealing” wherein the house takes advantage of a customer’s delayed move to take down winnings, from the betting area.
There was a time when casinos honored winners and paraded them around as free advertising, and it worked. Now if you win at all, they shut the table down and browbeat you. A blackjack shoe has over 6 decks now making card counting obsolete. Once, at the Resorts, I won about 5 blackjack hands in a row, for a total of about $150 and there were 6 people staring at me like I was a child killer.. Sheesh!
Is the casino giving back the money it won on the “unshuffled” decks as well? I doubt it.
It is possible that the cards WERE shuffled.
If you take two identical decks of cards, and shuffle each of them with the exact same pressure and speed, the end result will be the same. It could be that the shuffling machines are too perfect.
Is that their argument? "Your Honor, we assumed that the cards were already shuffled so we didn't bother shuffling them ourselves before dealing out hands...."
There are such swindlers in casinos.....CNBC's "American Greed" series ran the story about a Vietnamese group that swindled casinos out of millions.
They were very sophisticated, using electronics, and hordes of accomplices in the scheme, traveling from one casino to another ........was going great except for one huge boo-boo.
They hired people to participate---but one of them was an undercover agent who caught the ringleader on tape.
This is a little like Kamikaze pilots suiting Mitsubishi.
Um, doesn’t this casino have those card shuffling machines, or doesn’t the dealer shuffle the cards? Did they open a new pack of cards with each hand or something? Sounds to me like the procedures of the casino are to blame here.
Anybody can win blackjack by using memorized Monte Carlo non-successive damped sequence algorithms. I did this in Reno for 3 months- Then they blackballed me at all the casinos. So I taught my friends how to do it and they all cleaned up.
If the contract says cards are supposed to be delivered pre-shuffled and the weren’t that’s a valid suit. Of course the dealer should have caught this before the gamers did and shut down the table. The players definitely didn’t do anything wrong.