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Originally Posted by CupOfSalt
“I could deal poker because I’ve played poker for 20 years” is no different than “I could be a chef because I’ve eaten at 5 star restaurants for 20 years”.
Sure, you might know what good food is, but that doesn’t mean you could cook it.
Anyone who plays poker already knows how poker works, check, bet, call, hand rankings, each street, etc. If you have that down, all the other stuff (pitch, chip handling, raking the pot, making change, etc.) will come with time and practice.
My training was essentially "okay let's take turns dealing to each other and play a game of poker", hardest part for me personally was feeling comfortable with the pitch, but I never flipped cards outside of a few a night.
I feel pretty confident that you if you take any able-bodied poker player who passed 3rd grade math, you will be able to turn them into a passable dealer after just one day of training.