I don’t mean dealing the cards from the hard. I mean the way they “color up” a player’s chips. For example, if you won and have a lot of $5 and $25 chips in front of you, it’s common to have the dealer color them up so you’ll have $100 or even $500 chips (or fewer chips) to take to the cashier. In the past, I have seen dealers cheat people by placing an extra chip on top of each stack. Dealers normally have a way to count chips. They stack $5 chips in 5 in each stack for $25 and the green $25 chips in 4 in each stack for $100. But if they stack 6 $5 chips in each $25 stack and 5 $25 chips in each $100 stack, if you are not paying attention and since the chips are so small, you may not notice. Like one time, I seen them color up a player’s green $25 chips as $300 when actually he had $375. Also, another time I just happen to count my chips (all $5 chips) and thought I had $180 when the dealer color them up as $150. I just assumed I miscounted and went on because I saw 6 stacks of reds ($5 chips), but I bet there was an extra chip on top (never thought of looking closer to see if there are 5 chips in each stack).

Also, if a player has several hundred in $5 chips, they’ll stack them in $100 stacks after counting 4 stacks of $25 and I have seen stacks that seem higher than a normal stack of $100 in $5 chips.

Also, when you buy in for $100, I had a couple of times they’ll give me $80 in chips for a $100 buy in and I just happen to count my chips those times.

These incidents were a few years ago and were at a casino in Wisconsin and in Tunica, MS. I’ve never been to Vegas.

I since then made it a point to always count my chips before having them colored up and watch closely as the dealer colors them up. I may have been cheated in the past, but not anymore.

I haven’t had an incident or seen any of this in the last 3-4 years. They may not do it anymore, but I haven’t been in one casino that I’ve seen this in awhile.

I’m just wondering if anybody have seen any of this that I talked about? Or have they tried to cheat you like this? Or do you expect you were cheated once?

If there are any blackjack dealers on here that remember your boss told you to cheat a player like this or any other way, please answer.
I can tell with their and the pit bosses body language that it is not likely a mistake and what if it happens too often. I’ve heard this is more likely to happen in small casinos that don’t have much profit compared to Vegas casinos. It’s true the dealers don’t have anything to gain, but I think they are likely following the orders of their boss and their job is on the line if they don’t do what their boss asks them to do. A lot of dealers need the job.