Recieved a 10 and a joker at the DD game at the Mirage

Funny thing happened the other day at the Mirage in Vegas DD game.
on a $50 bet I get a 10 and joker. I say yay I got a blackjack, I want that joker to be an ace. Dealer calls the boss over and he says I can call that a blackjack and get paid 3 to 2. then they take the joker away. Thinking back on it I could have made more money by doubling down if the boss let me use that joker as a wild card but I'm happy he didn't call it a dead hand. I don't know how that joker got in there I thought they check the cards before they put them in play.

jimsmith,

The idea is to see who posts on the internet BJ boards about receiving one, so they can put a face (and, if you weren't playing anonymously, a name) to the internet handle.

Thus, you might want to bust your post and hope they didn't get up early today.

Hope this helps!

Dog Hand

P.S. Admin, if jimsmith busts his post, please bust mine as well.

I've never seen a joker in Spanish 21 and I play a lot of Spanish.

is to turn into bj not an 11. wong has a section on the correct strategy in Basic Blackjack. That decision seems pretty obvious to me but there are some less obvious- 8+ joker, 9 + joker.

This does not sound like intentional use of joker by casino. THere was an Indian casino that put one joker per 6deck all the time. Amazing how much advantage it adds to the player.

...the floor supervisor as well as the dealer. Unless it was intentional, which I sincerely doubt. The floor supervisor, fancy name now used for the floor person, missed removing the Joker from the deck when he cracked the seal and removed the cards. He also didn't catch it when he fanned the cards before passing the deck to the dealer's control. The dealer missed it when he spread and checked the deck. It seems almost impossible to miss that Joker when spreading and checking. None the less, it happened.

Consider yourself lucky that the floor person allowed a 3:2 blackjack. The supervisor would have been in his rights to call it a dead hand, perhaps even a dead round for the whole table, depending on where the Joker popped up.

Casinos check to see if the dealer is really checking and not just going through the motions by sometimes removing one card intentionally, but that shorted deck would never be put into play if missed. The dealer would get a reprimand or demerit like a little boy in the Cub Scouts. ;)

Cobbson

He also didn't catch it when he fanned the cards before passing the deck to the dealer's control. The dealer missed it when he spread and checked the deck. It seems almost impossible to miss that Joker when spreading and checking. None the less, it happened.

Assuming there were players at the table, they should be watching the checking of new decks as well.

The reason you don't often find jokers in the deck is because they are all sitting at the table.