What do you do when the dealer overpays you?

[heavy]

Okay, it's time for the boy scouts to 'fess up. What do you do if the dealer overpays you on a bet. Feel free to explain the circumstances.

In my case, if a dealer overpays me and does not realize that he's done so - and the box didn't catch it either - then I'm probably going to rack it and move on.

If a dealer overpays me and I see him hesitate - realizing what he's done - I'll just toss the overpayment back to him.

If the boxman catches it and says something to me I simply lay the entire payoff on the layout for the eye in the sky and ask them to correct the payoff.

Generally I don't want to get the dealer in trouble by making a big deal out of being overpaid. At the end of the day those over-payments usually go back to the dealers in the forum of tokes. The danger in doing this is that security MIGHT think you are in collusion with the dealer to set up a win for them. Who needs that kind of attention.

What's your thinking?

[Golfer]

Case by case. Big thing is not to bust the dealer's balls and give the box room to bitch, especially if they are an a hole. Biggest mistake I ever caught was when a dealer picked up a stack of green instead of red and paid me on a PL winner. Other players were green and I was the only red chipper that side. I just pointed for the box, who had not seen the original move and he took care of it quietly. Later I rec'd my complimnetary upgrade to Diamond status from Platinum as an unspoken thanks. Worked for me. Don't think they do that stuff anymore.

Another time in Puerto Rico I got paid on a PL winner with a stack of red and found after the dice were out for the next roll that the bottom red chip had been a black one. Dealer had paid from a dirty stack. I admit I kept it but did toke a couple of red as I left the table. I was in my 20's and did not fully realize the consequences of my sins, as I do now.

[Mad Professor]

Heavy's three-tier over-payment policy is also my policy.

Most over-payments are innocent enough, and if you make a big deal of it, you may be costing that dealer their job...and forever making you a pariah in the eyes of ALL THE OTHER DEALERS who witnessed what you did (and who subsequently tell all the other dealers about you too).


MP

[Americraps]

When a dealer overpays me, I take it and hope nobody noticed it.

[Tricky]

I always tell the dealer, they almost always appreciate it. I never got the feeling that I was getting the dealer in trouble.

[SHOOTITALL]

Well, guess I'm in the minority. If I catch it, I toss it back to the dealer and tell him he gave me too much. Can't help myself here, as I believe if you knowingly keep it, let your conscious be your guide. I was in Biloxi once when a new female dealer paid me $27 bucks for a $6 place bet. Tossed it back and told the gal I was suppose to get a red, not a green. That one did cost her as they immediately put her on stick for the rest of the shift. I have also been know to say, "Wow this table REALLY pays good."
while the chips are still laying on the felt. I simply do not need a couple of bucks that badly. sia

[kenb]

At one of the Ohio River boats, a nugget dealer paid my Lay bets on 4 and 10 at even money. The boxman glanced occasionally and didn't catch it. Made about $150 off her mistake.

[heavy]

What a country.

[acpa]

had a situation today where the box overpaid me $5 when he counted my odd chips.

he put the $500 away and had the odds chips in his hand and I asked him to look at them again. He had paid me $42 for them. He put 4 reds in one stack, spread three reds and two whites and said $42.

Stick pointed out the stack only had 4 in it. I threw the $5 back to him and asked what he paid. I told him $42 and hr had put the red I gave him back so it was $42 and then handed it back to me. Stick said "say thank you" which I did and walked with the extra red.

Noah

[Iceman95]

It happened a few times to me. I let the dealer know they made a mistake.

[Blackcloud]

UNHH!!Are you gambling or working for the casino, whose intent is to make it very difficult to win

[CrimsonTide]

I call the overpayment to the dealer's attention. If he /she says it is correct, I pick it up.

Had this happen several years ago at the Ameristar in Vicksburg. The overpayment was $100. After the dealer insisted it was correct, I went to the cashier and had them call upstairs and have the tape reviewed. The answer was that I was correct. The payoff was INCORRECT. However, because I was honest they said "The money is yours, and THANK YOU!" After that, I never felt bad about playing there- which I would have had I kept their money without reporting the error.

CrimsonTide

[rubin74]

You probably got the dealer in trouble

[Blackcloud]

UNHH!!BC's thought included the box man

[Kelph]

I say "thank you God, you'll get your cut on Sunday." After all, a deal is a deal.

Kelph

[heavy]

'fess up time. It's happened to all of us. Some people just give the money back. Some lock it up. What the heck. You're playing a busy game and as a matter of course the dealer overpays you. Let's say he owes you 35 for a payoff on a $30 six that hit and he presses it to 70 and gives you $70 change. What do you do?

[House of Orange]

Miss Kelph .....Keep the money.

[r_ventura_23]

In my opinion, getting over paid is one of he ways they thank you for tipping. If you are too cheap to tip, and they over pay you....give it back.

[Moe Bettor]

I have never said anything. But then it's never been a lot of money. I just tip it back or keep it. Had a dealer keep a DC 4 up through a roll where there was a 4 rolled. Lost on it anyway. I figure the dealers have been trained, put on a table to do a job, let the casino figure it out. I tip constantly either way.

[220Inside]

Depending on the dealer, I may quietly point it out the first time it happens, but after an initial mistake, if subsequent overpayments happen, I'll happily accept the extra chips in the rack. But as Nick mentions, I tip constantly either way.