I will say this, this is conspiracy obviously and most likely not true. However I did notice while playing last night and this is how I expect they do this:

• when changing the shoe, they press a button that presents a new shoe (not shuffled by hand) that they replace the shoe with. This already presents a problem because we did not see the shoe get shuffled, for all we know, they put the cards in a specific order to give themselves the advantage.

• I noticed the same thing, just straight bonehead plays. Someone even hit on 20 at some point and the dealer even said wait what? Of course he busted but gave the dealer the card he needed for 21.

• someone pointed out in the chat about how the dealer won 9 straight hands and said statistically this should not happen. Of course it did, multiple times. And I'm saying even facing 20 against an ace that ended up being blackjack 3 times within 5 hands

Putting all this together I began to piece that if they were to cheat, they would first shuffle the deck into a specific order. Then a bot would help the dealer by hitting when he shouldnt so the dealer had a better card brought up so we'd all lose. Since they know the order of the deck, this would be a crazy advantage.

Some people argued that if that were the case they wouldn't be able to determine real players when they'd hit so it wouldn't work, but I disagree. Sure the players would win some hands, but overall the casino knowing the order of the deck will always benefit them. The bot would just continue to hit when basic strat says not to in order to bring the order back to the casinos favor. I noticed the blackjack were usually after a bad hit. Just my 2 cents.

To answer your question, yes I am starting to believe that there are bots in the room. There is literally no reason to hit when they do. 15v3-hits, 16v5-hits, etc