Ozzythecat said:
What are the hours like?
Have you ever busted someone for counting cards or things like that?
The hours, in my company in britain at least are 40 hours weeks, but almost entirely night work. You have the option of a five day 8 hour weeks or three 8 hours and one 16 hour. Personally I work 8pm-4am tuesday, thursday, saturday as supervisor, and 9pm-5am wednesday and friday as a dealer.
We bust cheaters often, I only work with poker so, I can only bust colluders. every type of cheating you can imagine goes on though, and NO ONE gets away with it.
benzooka said:
How do you deal with things like slow-rolling and very unclear string betting, for example?
Even though there are "house rules" on everthing in poker, and the tables, often the dealer has to make a decision based on what they see and if they can't they have to look to myself or higher for clarification of a rule.
We have a useful system where a dealer can choose to envoke "the rule of honesty" Where you let something go beacuse someone is new to the game and gently explain why they can't do it, or declare that a faux par was an honest mistake. Or envoke "The rule of technicallity" Where you take an action as the first thing the player does and strictly impose a change of action or a penalty. in terms of String betting, my general rule, is if a single chip or uncalculable amount of chips go over the line and touch the felt, I class that as a call or minimum bet. i am a strict dealer/supervisor though, I often see a dealer that is not sure take the cautious approach and let the bet stand. If something is unclear to me I always enforce technicality.
I hope that clears it up a little bit.
Oh, slow rolling, it is difficult to prevent someone slow rolling, other then imposing hand penalties after they have done it, I usually warn someone that I will take action next time (though I do not know what action I will take) and then they don't do it again.
gunn34 said:
This may not apply to your cardroom or any room you've worked in, but i have found that a few (and the one i frequent specifically) casinos offer cash poker games only. No tournaments. I was wondering the other day why this might be. Is there something prohibitively expensive about getting into the tourney scene? It seems like the WSOP on tv would guarantee a client base for tourneys. Also I know that the casino in question acquired the necessary licenses to run tournaments, but they have made no plans, as far as I can gather from dealers and floor people, to begin running them.
The thing with tournaments is that usually poorer people want to play in them, and there is very little profit in a tournament, especially if it is dealer dealt. Most casino's in Britain do hold oturnaments at all levels. Some casino's run them every day, but less then £50 entry requires them to be dealer dealt. Other casino's run them a couple of days a week, like our casino. The problem with tournaments is that it can tie up a dealer for hours with very little payout from the customers. After you take out dealers, wages the elec tricity used etc, very little money is left over, and then if you put freebies on top of that, you've got no chance of making money off of them.
The other thing is, Poker does not make a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. Poker is only there to get customers on the other tables. On a 50p/ £1 table a casino makes approximatelly £75 per table per hour. Whereas they can make ten times that in one spin of a roulette wheel.
