Funny stuff but this line reminded me of a comment I took out of my repetoire: On my last hand after being tapped if it was a friendly table, I would say "This is my last hand, let's make it epic," which some people found a little amusing for whatever reason.

Well, I say it and some guy starts going "I want to make this epic for you" and raises and then proceeds to play a rather large pot with rather bad cards that he winds up losing.

He never blamed me, even jokingly, for this. But I don't want such a comment to possibly influence someone so I stopped saying it. Some regs will still talk about "epic hands" when I am in the box though...

Oh, and to whomever asked me, I don't wanna say where I work as I was reprimanded for doing so once from both my employers and Rapini. You can PM me if you like though...

I never commented on how true this was, by the way. Best advice you can give someone. I still have hiccups on this but my batting average is pretty good overall.

Exactly why i don't make eye contact with players while a decision is being made, especially if Ive incidentally seen an un-tabled hand. i make effort to NOT see/process hands players try to show me or the table as a decison is being made..."oh Ive seen em all before..." as I look away.

Never give a player a reason to think you influenced another players play. Your situation could have gotten very ugly for you regardless of your intent, IF it happens again the outcome may very well be different, and it likely will put you in a very uncomfortable position with your superiors.

I state the action and look at the flop watch what is happening in my peripheral and remain still and silent until the hands are tabled or i am asked for any clarification that needs to be made or i recognize needs to be made.

Im all for some of the kidding and joking a bit, but im not setting myself up to be the reason someone else lost a pot (real or perceived)

For those of you who want all the rancid poker jokes to die, every now and then comes a table that hasn't heard 'em. Playing a couple nights ago the old dealer in the box is prattling off his standard repertoire of jokes everybody has heard a hundred times, only at this table are two guys who apparently have never played before. They are falling out of their seats laughing in agony at every one of his lines.

I comment to the dealer "I think you finally found your audience". The guy now laying on the floor laughing looks up at me and asks "what, you've heard these before?" Dealer looks at me and says "I haven't had two people at a table laugh at my jokes in about 5 years".

"Traveler's checks" and "gay waiter" to these guys was like knock-knock jokes to 5 yo's.

Ah, what do you know from funny, ya bastard!

Nice - much safer than back of the bus too as it has less hot button connotations if you know what I mean.


I'm a self-admittedly mediocre dealer WRT to hands/hr and speed calculating the pot in PLO for example, but one thing I have been told a number of times by my floors and room managers is that I do an excellent job of keeping a poker face while dealing. Whether the pot is $6 or $6k my inflection and tone do not change when announcing bets or anything else that could influence a player's decision - but god do I wish I could at times like the one described above.

Gentlemen, as a player and frequent lurker across the 2+2 forums I want to thank you for your input in this thread. It has successfully gotten me through a week and a half of dead time at work. Thank you again, and please keep it coming if you got it, I still have until the end of August before things really pick back up.

I liked both, but the second one was way better because of its spontaneous nature. I would have an incredibly difficult time not giving some sort of tell if I saw that dude's hand.

Just FYI, I never would reprimand anyone for revealing his/her place of employment. Employees are permitted to post facts relating to rules/regulations at their places of employment; what they're not allowed to do is make posts that might in any way be construed as promotional.

Did those rules change at all, Rapini? All I posted before was that I would look into proividing answers and I was reprimanded and the post was removed because I was not the room's "official poker room rep" (or whatever title is thrust upon them).

That said, even if I am in the clear here, I still don't want to risk the wrath of my employer even if I can go wrath-free from you...

Haha fair enough.

As for the original posts I deleted, they must have been answers to service-related questions that you were looking into as opposed to rules or procedures. It remains true that dealers cannot act as room representatives.

Sorry all for the brief derail.

So, I've been drug free for the past 3 months, used marijuana recreationally before than. Just applied for a casino job dealing Blackjack. I knew drug testing was involved but just realized that it may be hair testing and not the standard piss test. Testing goes back 90 days. Perfect.

Problem is, I'm bald and they will have to use body hair. Just read that my body hair is about a year old.

Questions for you guys- Hair testing standard in all casinos? Do they take into account body hair goes back a year? Should I admit to smoking weed 3 months ago but have been sober since?

I searched but everything I found on here talks about urine tests.

Urine testing is standard, but I've worked at places that did hair tests, too. About 80/20, I'd say, based on my small sample size of about a dozen jobs.

I don't understand why marijuana is illegal, and I'm even more puzzled why employers would give a crap. I know the theory that drug use jeopardizes safety in the work place, but alcohol would seem to me to present a far greater threat to workplace safety, and nobody tests for that.

If you use illegal drugs you associate with a criminal element. It is a financial issue.

My guess is people who use drugs are more likely to steal than people who don't.

Shave all your body hair.

Sat at a friendly $1/2 table the other day and a couple of players were excitedly talking about the near-bad beat that occurred earlier in the day at the table. It seems that the board was J77xx and the two players had pocket Jacks and pocket 7's.

I heard the story and replied, "So you were one Jack off, huh?"

I said it without thinking that someone might be offended but fortunately nobody was. Got a few white chips tossed at me for the joke, actually.

And here's one I hope I don't have to repeat:

A player in the 1-seat was a little drunk but tolerable, however his brother was standing behind him (and also me) and he was combative and loud and in the course of my push, managed to threaten me, another player, security, at least one floor person and finally get the cops called. None of that was fun...

Finally as I am being tapped the drunk player is all-in on the river and a regular named Kevin, a good dude with an amazing Irish accent was deliberating a call (the two had a large confrontation earlier which set off the brother pretty badly for reasons I won't get into though they were funny in retrospect) and the cops show up at that exact moment.

The cops say it's time to go. He says he is all in and will not leave until the hand is done. The cops have no desire to wait and the Irish guy is too stunned to make a decision.

The cops say he has to go RIGHT NOW and the guy whines "Man, I have Aces full," and at one point intentioanlly flips over his hand, I guess expecting the cops to go "Wow, that is a monster! We'll wait a second here, hopefully you'll get paid off," but he indeed had pocket Aces with an ace and a pair on board.

Finally the guy is dragged from his chair, kicking me in the shin in the process. While he is wrestling on the ground to my left with a couple of cops, I am trying to protect myself and the rack. Then the cops say "If you don't cooperate, we will tase you." The next thing I hear is a pop followed by the highest pitched yelp I ever imagined would come from a pretty big black dude. The struggle ended shortly thereafter.

As that is winding down, I just look to Kevin and say "So.... Are you calling"?

Kevin looks at me and says, in his thick brogue, "I can't win!"

I say "So... You're folding then?"

"Yeah," he says.

The tased guy wins the pot, which gets bagged up and given to the cops as they drag him away. His brother, who was the main instigator, manages to avoid any such issues. I spend the rest of my shift modifying my table exit speech to "I want to thank all of you for not needing to be tasered today..."

You must have been dealing to the guys that Bav was playing with last week, because I don't know anyone that still finds that funny.

I can appreciate your personality and your zest for having fun in the box is certainly admirable, but I think I would find playing in your game to be painful. Glad your audience enjoys it though, and I'm guessing you are in a fairly new, smaller poker market.

I think you'd love playing in his games. If people are laughing at "one jack off" like they've never heard it before, they must all be new to poker, and must be the easiest pickings in the world.

Of course, I'd recommend an iPod before he starts reciting lines from Rounders...

So last night I am dealing when some players object to a bet claiming it was a string bet. I don't think it was a string bet .... I call for a decision and the floor agrees it was not a string bet. Many players at the table are upset by the ruling and one in particular won't shut up about how terrible a ruling he just saw (I should add that it occurred in a situation where it likely didn't matter much anyway).

After 10 minutes about berating me about how crooked this room is to allow such a string bet ..... he adds this gem .... "they wouldn't even make that ruling in a 10 cent online tournament." The guy says this and I turn and look at him, there is not a smile, nothing to indicate he understands what he just said.... I look around the table and exactly 1 player gives me any indication that he understood it.

If someone leaves (or tased, whatever) in the middle of a hand, isn't his hand dead? Not that I aim to win a pot without the best hand, but there is action pending and the guy left the table.

Makes sense although I don't know anyone who has done anything criminal, besides purchase and possession of course, to get a few bong hits. Overall, marijuana is less harmful to society than alcohol. It should be legal to separate it from the criminal element.

Ty for the response YTF. I applied for one of the big name Casinos. I was asked permission to do the drug test and it stated it could go back 90 days. How often do they ask for the lengthy test but do a urine test instead?

Sorry for asking here, figured it was relevant because you have all gone through the hiring process in a casino and can give the most accurate feedback.

Since most of us work in casinos, most of us are drug-free, and our only expertise is being able to hit the center of the cup.

Go find a blazer forum, I'm sure they must exist.

A blazer forum would be perfect if I wanted to figure out how to smoke and still pass the test. I've been drug free for the past three months and plan on staying that way. Guess my best option is to let my hair grow for 90 days and re-apply.

Sucks that I look for feedback and instead get ripped for choosing to do a drug that is relatively harmless. Drink enough alcohol and you can die from it, that can't happen with weed. Your co-workers are not drug free, they just choose to use drugs that are socially acceptable in our narrow minded society.

Hmm, if im Kevin in this spot i just call time, wait for the guy to get dragged off and then raise( assuming this wasn't an all-in bet and call situation where a raise wasn't possible), which he cant call cause he is gone.

Gotta love Philly. Only thing better would have been if the guy getting dragged off was wearing a santa suit and someone pelted him with a snowball....or horsedung given the time of year.