Could you even be a dealer?

[Preston]

Here is a question for the AP's.

If a casino offered you a really good paying job with great benefits dealing blackjack... Do you think you could do it?

All the stupid ploppy quotes, bad double downs, superstitions, and most importantly dumbshit plays and bitching about their bad luck.

I honestly don't think I could take it. Especially since I couldn't say anything one way or the other. Sometimes it is good to piss off a ploppy... especially during a good count.

[ScottH]

Originally Posted by Preston

Here is a question for the AP's.

If a casino offered you a really good paying job with great benefits dealing blackjack... Do you think you could do it?

All the stupid ploppy quotes, bad double downs, superstitions, and most importantly dumbshit plays and bitching about their bad luck.

I honestly don't think I could take it. Especially since I couldn't say anything one way or the other. Sometimes it is good to piss off a ploppy... especially during a good count.

These comments don't bother me in the slightest. You can even enjoy the fact that you know they think they are good, but are just losers. If a ploppy says something about the flow or anything like that, instead of getting annoyed I just go with it and laugh about it with my partner.

[EasyRhino]

Actually, it would be fun to be a dealer, just to mess with players.

Unfortunately, the being on your feet all day, all the smoke, the constant surveillance, and the frickin' required manual dexterity would just make me crack.

[dacium]

Seriously I would love being a blackjack dealer. Ploppy after ploppy. I would love it the most on CSM machine, knowing every player was an idiot. I have shoes at home and dealer games out all the time to practice. I just hate all the other casino games and from what I can see you arent allowed to be just a blackjack dealer, they move your around to other crappy games.

[surf911]

Just of curiousity what is the pay for dealers? More or less...

[ihate17]

Originally Posted by surf911

Just of curiousity what is the pay for dealers? More or less...

Plus tips. In other words, the players pay most of the dealers pay. Breakins might be making 20 grand if they are lucky at the fabulous Western, and Wynn stated that his dealers were making 100 grand before taxing them 10% to give the pit a raise.
Of course you have part timers, extra board dealers?, these perhaps do not get the hours or benifits of the regulars.

ihate17

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by Preston

If a casino offered you a really good paying job with great benefits dealing blackjack...

There’s no such thing! The only dealer jobs that pay well are in places that would never hire me. But I guess if you know someone…

Originally Posted by Preston

Do you think you could do it?

Sure, for a while at least. I could tolerate it but I would never want to have to make a living doing it. Day after day, always on your feet, pit bosses breathing down your neck, annoying players, trying to grind out a few dollars per hour. Heck, the dealers have it much worse than we do! We can Wong out whenever we want.

I used to work part time for a company that held “casino night” parties. I dealt blackjack and craps almost every weekend. It was a lot of fun, but I don’t think I could do it 40 hours per week. It can get old pretty fast.

-Sonny-

[rogue1]

It makes me crazy as a player hearing these dumbasses blame the dealer when they lose a hand I can't imagine being the dealer and hearing it all day,day in and day out!

[ihate17]

I have had several family members who have dealt, but only one both liked it enough and had the proper lack of motivation to stay in that job.

A cousin, who moved up the casino food chain, once commented, that casinos do not superglue the butts on the players to the seats on the table but the dealer is stuck till they get a tap.
Work in the right place and it pays very well for a position that requires little or no education and a skill that is easily learned (I hope the family is not reading this stuff). For some it is the best they can do, for some others the money can be a trap.

You have bosses who do not understand the game they supervise.
These bosses will often tend to pass blame along to the lowest denominator person, the person who can not pass down the blame, the dealer.
You have the petty stuff that goes on amongst casino employees.
You have a job where if a person of power just happens not to like you, your job will disappear and no reason will be given.
You have the complaints of tons of players, who mostly play horribly, and they land up very often blaming you for their poor play, which means losses.
Some players will offend you and accuse you of cheating.
And, you put yourself in a possibly bad position if you try to defend yourself against players and it results in an arguement or some kind of confrontation.
Easily, you are the guy who gets it in both ends, player/management.
Add to that, in places that have regulars, there might be a number of players that you really like and sometimes those cards that you just pull out of the shoe will be so bad that you will really feel sorry for that player.

A short and selective memory is required to maintain sanity. Take it home with you and it will eat you up. Casino bosses are as a rule not the best people to work with (of course there are exceptions) and people, the players can easily be at their worst in a losing, gambling situation.

As a benifit though, working in a casino you will get a great education in all sorts of behavioral abnormalities.

ihate17

[21forme]

Don't forget the pleasure of smoke blown in your face all day.