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| - Like any other reasonable person that's spent any time in a casino, I don't play with the goal of winning money at the table. Don't get me wrong - that's obviously the ideal outcome, but it's also about the entertainment. After all, it's not like the odds are in the player's favor (hellooooo, Hunger Games). Otherwise, why would casinos even offer the game? That being said though, I never thought the casinos would screw us out of both our money AND our fun...
Now, while neither of us consider ourselves to be heavy gamblers, my friend and I are more than familiar with the basics of Craps. Since the table had been really cold, we opted to play the "dark side" (Don't Pass/Don't Come) the entire time, which meant we were betting that the shooters would roll a "7" before rolling whatever the point was set at. Initially, things were pretty uneventful - lots of people crapping out early, no hot streaks.
On this particular turn though, the shooter (who was on the opposite end of us) threw a "6/4" on his opening roll that literally landed right in front of us. This set the point at "10", which the dealer on our end of the table confirmed verbally, as well as with the placement of the marker on the table. Given that a roll of "7" was twice as likely to come out as another "10", both of us placed odds on our initial $10 Don't Pass bets with an additional $50.
The next roll was a "6" and the one after that was a "9", which shouldn't have affected us at all. However, the stick man called it a front line winner, meaning that it matched what he had as the point - "9" instead of "10" (ditto for the dealer on the other end of the table). Our dealer had a confused reaction, but proceeded to collect our bets. Seeing that, we immediately protested and asked for clarification/review. The stick man then brought over the pit boss, who then called up to the eye in the sky (aka the people monitoring the security cameras).
While they were checking, we were confident we were right. We individually saw the first roll as a "10", our dealer had called it a "10" at the time, she knew we had been putting odds only on rolls of "4" or "10", the bet/odds we placed were based on a roll of "10" (if it had been "9", our bet would've been $45 instead of $50), the third player at the table said he was positive it was a "10", and the final player/shooter (after initially not saying anything) said he thought it was a "10" as well.
So, it makes perfect sense that the call came down as a "9". And given that the eye in the sky has the final say, we were shit out of luck.
Now, I'm not saying we were lied to (read: cheated), but it seems awfully weird that so many of us apparently saw the dice wrong. It also seemed convenient that ruling it as a "9" meant the casino won money (our bets were more than enough to cover any payouts), as opposed to calling it a "10", which would've resulted in no action either way. Is there a chance the rest of us were wrong? Of course! Just like how there's a non-zero chance Jennifer Lawrence (hellooooo, Hunger Games) will read this and want to meet up for brunch next Saturday (which is open on my calendar, by the way...).
Too bad neither are very likely...
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