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Originally Posted by icemanjmw
The staff overall is good, or at least competent, so I don't want to sound like they're a bunch of monkeys dealers. However the bad ones are really really bad. We had one hand where the one player was all in for about $40 and got one caller preflop, so the dealer spreads the flop and then goes to mix all the rest of the cards together like the hand was over. Thank goodness 9 people shouting "STOP" in unison was enough to freeze him and allow us to explain that even though two players were all in they were still entitled to all 5 community cards.
The ridiculously green dealers thing I couldn't really understand. The last weekend I went to Wheeling was after everyone had already quit, so they had dealers down there that they grabbed from the pit and had literally NEVER dealt a hand of hold 'em in their lives. I can understand if those people were only spreading 3 out of 5 community cards or forgetting to burn or whatever the case may have been.
But they said that they have been "in school" for weeks preparing for this night. My question is: what do they do in school? I would think the best way to teach people how to deal is to put 5 or 6 of them at a table and have 1 deal while the rest play, then keep pushing in a circle on the table all day every day for a month. If they don't get it by then, they never will. Seriously though, I've never dealt professionally a hand in my life, but I knew more about presentation and procedure than most of them. Many didn't pitch the cards, they just placed them, many took 5 or 6 times to count the rack down, many couldn't do a side pot. I know it's easy to criticize and I'm sure it's a lot harder to sit in that box than it looks (don't want all the dealers jumping on my back). I did my best to encourage them, help them out when they were making mistakes, keep them loose, all that stuff, but these people were not adequately trained imo, and this is not their fault.
The best way to learn a job like poker dealing is to do it over and over and over again until they can do it in their sleep. I know they'll get there eventually, but I expected them to be a bit further down that road than they are.