The down side to this is that when players figure out that they can get a new setup by making a deck sticky .... they will start wiping their snot on the cards to get a new setup.

You mean not all players do this already anyway?

Today two things are happening. My daughter is starting her career in Gaming in the table games department of one of the largest casinos on the planet. Meanwhile, ~1500 miles away, a former co worker and a pretty nice guy is auditioning for a dealer spot at the Bellagio. I wish them both good luck.

Your daughter is starting work at the wonder of it all?

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. I was referring to the casino I also work in.

Best casino theme song ever. Of course, management decided they had to get rid of it because it wasn't hip enough anymore.

ha, that's glorious

Thank you for clearing that up for me Venice, it's a neat song. Oddly enough, that commercial never played in Southern Oklahoma / North Texas.

So winstar is one of the largest casinos in the planet? Never been in that area! How freakin big is the place?

Winstar advertises itself as the 3rd largest casino (based on the number of games offered). it is in the top 10 based on square footage of gaming floor and that is being increased right now. They are planning a new hotel tower to add to the one they have and they are talking about breaking ground for 2 towers at the same time. Last year, the hotel had 98% occupancy.

IOW, it's pretty ****ing big.

That should be their motto...

Winstar: Pretty Freakin' Big

i didn't realize dallas was such a large market, but they have 6M+. and i guess when you add in another million from oklahoma city, and having no texas gambling, you have a pretty captive market.

Never heard that Foxwoods song before.

I liked it.


Also, being sick for 5 days and missing work sucks.

Feel better buddy.

That awkward moment when you're certain a guy is trying to isolate allin but his chips and non-verbal declaration insure its a call... I hate that. For example they have two 5k tournament chips and facing a t5500, allin in a multiway pot, and they snap toss them both it. Always creates such a cluster**** because yeah technically they did move all their chips into the middle but it's just annoying.

/end rant

A good dealer will instantly ask if the player is going all in. Technically the player has called but clarification should well... clarify that.

We spent about three hours tonight, counting and re-counting the drawers, double-checking the various tournament pools, trying to re-trace our multiple fills, to figure out where $40 went missing from a table.

Turns out the new girl thought the $4 drop chips were $2.

It's good to know they have kept up the quality hiring standards

So I guess the number 4 on them wasn't enough?

How long did it take to find out it was missing in the first place? New dealer pushing in counts the rack, right?

I was working brush, but I pushed for a minute to get the rotation going, then was relieved by the dealer at the back of the line. I noticed immediately. But nobody else in the room seems to, especially not day shift. I've pushed into some insanely messy and grossly inaccurate racks before.

When I had arrived to drop off my bag in the break room, I was asked to do a quick fill for the table. I did, and verified the chips given was the same as money received, but then I ran off to get dinner and clock in. So I spent a while trying to figure out if I had miscounted the fill, but the drawer was right. We had some unrelated problems with the tournament bank, so that wasn't helping. And we also had to get the tourney buyins verified and posted during this time. Plus, as someone here knows, we're understaffed at the desk.

Once someone else thought to ask her if she misunderstood the values, she verified it. And suddenly it made sense why she tried to underpay me for the fill. I just figured she was new and didn't know, and I didn't want to interrupt her already slowly-running game to clean up the rack during the fill.

Without the low standards, I wouldn't have a job.

If everything was smooth, then we wouldn't need the internet to talk about it all.

Played that song all the time on tv commercials during Sox/Celts/B's games when I worked in the sports book. It's right in my Rat Pack/karaoke wheelhouse, I'd sing along every time, coworkers would groan.

Anybody remember the Fiesta Casino in Summerlin adopting The Commodores' "She's a Brick House" for their tv commercials in the 90s? EVERYBODY in Vegas used to sing along when that one came on! "Fiesta slot.......'OUSSSSSSE!" Only other line I can remember was "The loosest slots in the wor-horld...The Royal Flush...ca-pit-al....oftheworld!" Used to crack us up.

And oh yeah, I've been out sick all week as well, but mine comes with a once-in-a-lifetime story. I started writing a post about it last night, but about 2.5 hours into typing it (with maybe another 20-30 mins to go) my cramped hands accidentally hit some key that sent my browser back a page or two, and when I tried to get back to the page I was typing on, all that work was gone.

So let's just say my sickness included: a house that was trying to kill me; seriously wondering if I was going to survive it; a legal threat from my landlady; losing my computer; seriously wondering if my long-awaited first heart attack was immanent; and after all that, finding out at the end of the day that the brand new tv show by My Favorite Person In The World that I've been waiting two years to debut was canceled because a horse injured himself not while filming, but while being walked back to the barn.

OK.... I'm a nit..... but Fiesta is not in Summerlin. And the folks who live in Summerlin are probably very insulted.

Had some old grizzled guy corner me on my break to have a contest with himself to see how many names he could drop in 20 minutes. Apparently he was cruising around with Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood, after which he turned $50 into $16,000 at roulette, which he used to buy a vintage 1890s revolver, after getting a ride with Carroll Shelby. To celebrate his win, Hugh Hefner hooked him up with a dozen playmates, which he entertained at a top floor 4-room suite at the Mirage.

All of this happened in the 24 hours before he was hanging around with me at 2am in our poker room. Oh, and did I mention he had a heart attack in the middle of his adventures and was dead for 18 seconds? He showed me his multiple tract marks... er, I mean, IV punctures from the hospital.

He then went on to tell me how he's been a personal assistant for Warren Buffet, who is jealous that he can't be as successful as Ted Williams. Meanwhile, he's been solo-piloting a yacht down the Eastern seaboard, with his special US Coast Guard passport. He and his genius brother were at the very first NY Mets baseball game, where they met the organist. When he started making some veiled insults about black people in NYC, I excused myself to get back to work.

And I'm leaving some stuff out. He was writing down various names and numbers and initials to pepper his stories, which started with his claim that he could perfectly duplicate the signature on his passport on a piece of paper (nope). I thought it was part of some grand story puzzle that would come together at the end, but it concluded with him telling me that he was off to take a massive dump.

So that was my night.