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live blackjack table min changed after shoe shuffle and broke my bonus max bet

So this was a new one for me. I sat down at a live dealer blackjack table and was working a deposit bonus with a clear max bet cap. Table minimum was right in the sweet spot at 5 bucks, so I started chipping away. After a couple of shoes, the table did a shuffle and suddenly the min went up to 25 out of nowhere. That threw my bonus plan out the window, since betting more than the limit would for sure screw up my withdrawal.

Not sure if this is common or if it was just bad timing, but I had to jump off and hope it didn’t trigger any kind of bonus violation. Didn’t see any warning from the dealer or in the chat. Has anyone else run into this? I thought the bet minimum was locked in for the whole session, at least until you left. It feels off, like there should be some kind of heads-up before that happens. Wondering if it’s something to watch for on other sites or just a weird glitch.

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Yeah, that happens. The bit people miss is your “session” means nothing to the live studio lol, blackjack limits follow the table config, and after a shuffle/reopen they can bump it with zero fanfare. Annoying as hell, not a glitch usually.

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“session” is doing a lot of work there. The betting timer resets, your little plan doesn’t 🙂

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"session" lol, live tables treat you like spare parts tbh 😒

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Yeah, the $5 to $25 jump is the bit that'd do my head in, especially right after a shuffle.

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$5 to $25 mid-shoe is grim

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$5 to $25 mid-session, yeah that'd get me too !!!

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673••6 replies

Yep, live tables do that after a shoe, stream delay tooo

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Min isn’t “locked” just because you’re seated, that’s the part people keep assuming. The professional dealer is basically furniture for that part, the lobby/risk side can reprice whenever traffic jumps. I’ve had live roulette do the same thing right as a table got busy, and that wasn’t a glitch, that was the tell. Bonus clearing on live is flimsy by design.

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shoe break and bam 25 lol classic

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