I used to think we were overpaid. But then, I thought we were being paid to deal the cards and run the game.

Once I realized that we're actually being paid to put up with nonsense like that, I stopped believing we are overpaid.

My first dealing job was at the WSOP and back then new players had to post in cash games. A player would sit down and I'd ask them "Would you like to post and come in now or wait until the big blind?" Without fail, the player would look to see where the blind was then say "Oh, uh, yes."

I learned pretty quickly to only ask yes or no questions

I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation:

"hi, welcome to the game. Do you have a players card?"

"Yes" --- makes no motion

"Well if you give that to me, I can get you logged in."

"Huh? What?"

"Your player's card...."

"I don't have one"

I was just thinking today about how awesome of a job dealing would be if you got to work ONLY when you wanted to. Like, just picked up shifts and had no schedule or requirements. If I'm well-rested and in good spirits, dealing is a breeze, easy money. Sometimes when I get a really smooth pitch around the table, it feels like I just stroked my dick. But if my car needs service, taxes are due, got 4 hours of bad sleep, can't get any play from the girls, lost 5 buyins the night before with a bad run of cards like you ****ing read about, etc., last place I want to be in the world is the box.

I guess if your E.O. is really efficient, it's a close enough reality, but it still involves being somewhere on time, in uniform. And the 2 places I've worked at, E.O.s are very hit or miss.

We started a new promo yesterday, splashing pots triggered by TD's and FG's in select football games. For the first time, we turned off the background music, and put the sound on the game.

It was AWESOME! Not because I care about football...but because our most annoying players, the ones who speak out loud every thought that pops into their heads, and they're never happy thoughts--those players all STFU, all day long. I don't know if they were listening to the tv, or they're just in the habit of holding their tongues when others in the room are watching tv? I DON'T CARE! Whatever the reason, it was awesome!

I was pleasantly surprised when this continued onto the Sunday Night game, as that game is not part of the promo...but in the 2nd quarter, some boss somewhere decided that the sound of that game should NOT be on in the cardroom, and we went back to music...and those players who hadn't been speaking all day suddenly let it all out. It was like dams breaking, all over the room. The floors had more calls about players not getting along than I've seen in a long, long time.

These days I pretty much stick to sharp sports reporting and when I talk about sports it's with folks fairly well educated on the subject.

I normally have Sundays off, but have been forced into working them. I have forgotten just how mind-bogglingly stupid the general public is when it comes to football.

"OH MY GOD howwwwww could he miss that kick??!!"

Well maybe because it's 40 yards in a driving rainstorm on grass? He's not kicking off a ****ing tee in a dome.

I wanted to stab myself in the ear with an icepick no less than 17 times yesterday.

I go to push into my first game of the shift yesterday. I'm standing behind the ten-seat. The nine-seat is watching football, and very unhappy with a play that just happened. Between the play and the first replay, he loudly dropped three f-bombs, and loudly punched the tabletop once.

Now this guy's behavior is hit-or-miss. He's been a problem in the past, but has been doing a great job of controlling himself for a while now...but he's clearly not caring today. He's got almost no chips in front of him, AND he's losing at football, it seems. None of that is My Problem, tho.

I decide to start defusing him before I push in. I'm right next to him, so I lean in and tell him quietly, in a friendly tone, "You've already used up all your f-bombs, and I haven't even sat down yet!"

He does not back down, not even a little. "Aw, shut up! I'm not *directing* them at anybody!"

"I know," I assured him. "But your f-bombs are like my farts--when you're subjected to them, constantly, you don't care who they were *directed* at!"

(That last paragraph didn't happen...only because I didn't think of it in time. He stopped swearing, and busted out a few minutes later, so I didn't need it, any way.)

I had a table-full of armchair QB's doing the same thing the other night ("How could he miss that kick?"), except they weren't watching football....they were watching that Ninja show where guys climb impossible obstacle courses.

"How do you fall off the NET???", they cried, even though every one of them could be described as "having trouble getting out of their chairs."

Was the play any slower than it would be on a normal football sunday with music?

Nope!

One more football one from Sunday!

SEAT 5: The Packers have cheerleaders now?

LADY: Those are high school cheerleaders. They use a different school each week.

SEAT 5: Really? They didn't LOOK like high school girls!

LADY: (starts to look uncomfortable)

SEAT 5: (defensively) You know...from behind....

YTF: Not sure THAT's the defense you want to go with there.

This happened again tonight...here's the post describing the first time.

Tonight, a bunch of us are standing around at the start of our shift, waiting for the lineup to be posted. As I approach the group, I'm pleasantly surprised to see a football game is just starting on tv, at an unusually early time for a Monday. It's first-and-ten, and the Jets' rookie QB is dropping back to pass with about 14:57 left in the 1st qtr.

YTF: Here we go, kid dropping back to throw the first pass of his NFL career...he rolls right to buy some time...he's looking downfield...

(QB looks WAY over to the left, and winds up like he's gonna throw one to the moon)

YTF: He's gonna throw all the way across the field! Oh no! Don't do it, kid!

(by now all the dealers are looking at the tv, and they watch the easiest pick-six TD return in the history of the sport. Jets offense gives up a TD on the first play of the game on a rookie mistake. I let the rest of the play develop without further comment)

COWORKER: Wow, you called it, YTF! I'm impressed! Really, that was something! You called it before the ball was even halfway there!

Gold, Jerry. Gold.

Is it possible to line up dealer jobs at a distant casino without an in-person interview? Anyone here ever done it? Just wondering, I know a few people who initiated Vegas jobs from the Midwest, but they all flew over to interview first.

Dealer jobs generally require an audition which makes it difficult to do without visiting. But I have seen situations where a new casino sets up auditions in other areas when they are recruiting. And of course if you know the right people you might be able to get a job without an audition.

Yeah, that makes sense. I kinda just want to move without taking a long flight/roadtrip to see if I can have a job in hand. I have savings, but if I move out west without a job, I'd probably get impatient and do something stupid like try to go pro and busto my life roll.

Dealing a typical 1/3 game, lots of limpers and opens are generally 10-15 and flops go multiways often.

Guy makes it 10, a couple calls, guy in the SB who already has a red chip out there throws out 10 and it now looks like 15, BB who would be last to act quickly tosses out another red to complete his 10. Do you A) enforce a raise to 17 from the SB, B) toss back a red chip and/or say it's only 10, or C) ask him if he is raising or calling.

I almost always go with C in situations like this and have yet to encounter any problems, just curious if that's the consensus.

Raise. You're making it hard for the rest of us.

I'll almost always stop and clarify with the SB in this spot. I don't know what it is about SB's, but these things only happen to them.

That's not making it hard on anybody.

I have moved cross-country several times in my life, without a job-in-hand.

First, I make sure the rooms in that region are hiring. When possible, I apply online in advance.

If all that stands between me and the job are an interview, background check, and audition, those things have almost never tripped me up before.

(One place said no because of my credit report, which is rare--and that was a long time ago, and my credit is repaired now. There were other rooms in town, I easily got hired on eventually.)

If the room rule is that this is a raise (or a call) then you are making it hard on the dealers who follow the rule.

Of course if the room rule is that you are supposed to clarify intent then of course you are correct.

Where I work this is a call. Single chip rule. And why does your room have both $5 and $10 chips? Get rid of the $10s.

I assume he means the SB threw in 2 red chips.

In any case, he's almost always attempting to call there and I'm going to ask him for clarification.

Even though the sb's red chip represents one dollar, he still only needs to throw in one more red chip to call not multiple red chips. I'd say it was a raise but if the player protested I'd call a floor.

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it looks like a raise to $15 lol, but thats just me.