An unfortunate occurance

It was the last deal of a 6D shoe. The count was monsterous. It was late and I was going to finally get to use my "Hale Mary" or "Grand Slam" act for a last giant spread of a bet before retiring to my room. I wanted to place a bet in all seven positions. I asked. The dealer said "why". I decided to just put it all on three positions. I placed 25 units on each circle and did a little dance, a table pat/rub, etc. for good luck. I was now standing up. Cards came. I had good hands 19's and 20's. Dealer turns an ace. I made some exclamation and quickly turned my back and made some little curse as I did sort of a full circle. I looked back and the dealer started to turn over the hole card. I quickly said "wait! I think I want to take insurance." The hole card had partially flipped up. I thought he saw it. I didn't see it. He said, "do you want insurance" and winked. I thought for a moment and took the wink as if not to buy it. He flipped it and it was a BJ. I called for the pit and got nothing in return.

I learned a lesson on that one to be quick to not allow them to turn the hole card too soon. I still don't know what the wink really meant.

It seems to me that there is more than enough description here of your act, the situation and the dealer behaviour for anyone who was actually there to recognize you. You might just reconsider this post...

I had a similar situation where i was backcounting a full table and gave this Chinese guy chips to bet for me and onthe last hand the count dropped to +2 so i gave him 50 bucks bet he bet only 50. He git a double and we won that hand but he thought it was from changing my black but he gave me a hundred and that was my bet. So I got my 50 nucks back and was screwed over because I should have got 50+150. He was just shot, I don't think he was trying to screw me, but this one dealer earlier gave me a double when I wanted to split but I had a 3,5 instead of a 3,3. i was playing to long and thought I had 2, 3's. Anyway, I said split and gave the signal but he gave me one card, I was like no, no but he gave me a 2 then I looked and I had 2 3's. i am yelling at him and I call floor but couldn't resolve it so she calls the pit after I start cursing the dealer casue he spit on me when he talked. I should have spit on him but the pitboss didn't help me. I honestly thought I had 2,3's why the fuck would i double on 8 unless my max bet is out and they have a 6 showing, wtf.

Why can't you backline people there? That's worse then putting a bet on top of someone because think about surrender if I put up 50 and the guy has 25 how are we going to make change when i can't bet? The floor told me because fights break out but how am I going to get screwed with my bet behind the guy with a seperate payout? I'm never going back to the place except when I have a huge bankroll and can really hurt them, then I'll spread 1-100 or track the shuffle or have somebody there that can. F-them.

every game I have played has the dealer matching the chips being bet _exactly_. Most have rules for the dealer that require this. That is, if I bet 5 red chips, they don't pay off a green except in those cases where the red chip rack is nearly empty and they are trying to conserve nickles.

When I double down, I have to put the additional chips beside the original bet, not on top, and the dealer then pays off with two identical matching stacks of chips.

I'm not sure why a fight would break out since they pay off on each stack of chips separately, whether both are mine or one is mine and one belongs to the person behind me...

If could backline I would have been up a couple hundred and took off instead of the disaster that happened.

It's been between one to two years ago.

Anyway, I said split and gave the signal

Given there really is no 'split signal' and the fact that you really had a 3/5 for your hand, I can see why they could only assume that you wanted to double.

Maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture here.

And i said split! The other players heard me.

when splitting 4/4.

It's all just a reminder of how we must be very clear with what it is we want.

Another problem I have quite often is that the dealer nearly passes me up whenever I have a soft 18. I have learned to be ready for them to do that.

And just saying surrender is much better.