Ask a Poker Dealer.

[Beldaros]

Have you ever played 52 card pickup? Is it as fun as advertised?

Lol. No I never Have, not in the casino anyway. With the cousins when they were little though.

 

[Supp]

I misread the title as Poke Dealer, so I was wondering if you were selling poor, abused pokemon to some 12 year old crack addict in a back alley.

How often do you throw out cheaters? Is it multiple times a day, a few a week or what?

 

[Beldaros]

I misread the title as Poke Dealer, so I was wondering if you were selling poor, abused pokemon to some 12 year old crack addict in a back alley.

How often do you throw out cheaters? Is it multiple times a day, a few a week or what?

It's arbitrary to be honest

 

[gunn34]

Why cant i ever remember the poker rules...?
Do you do any fancy card tricks when dealing the cards?

When it comes to the rules... well there are a lot, or at least there are in a casino game. People often forget the finer rules and etiquette of the games. If you're talking about what hand beats what etc though. You probably just need to play more to familiarise yourself with it.

fancy card tricks... difficult to answer. I am an excellent dealer and the things I can do with the cards are beyond the average dealer, I often spin the chips as I'm collecting them and make them do things, instead of just throwing them into the pot and being boring. I'm very neat and fluent with my actions. Some people would refer to that as tricks I suppose. I don't tell people to pick a card any card or anything like that though. So, that is very difficult to answer.

If i stand the button up on its end can you throw a card so that it slides under without knocking it over? Ive yet to see this done successfully.

 

[Beldaros]

Why cant i ever remember the poker rules...?
Do you do any fancy card tricks when dealing the cards?

When it comes to the rules... well there are a lot, or at least there are in a casino game. People often forget the finer rules and etiquette of the games. If you're talking about what hand beats what etc though. You probably just need to play more to familiarise yourself with it.

fancy card tricks... difficult to answer. I am an excellent dealer and the things I can do with the cards are beyond the average dealer, I often spin the chips as I'm collecting them and make them do things, instead of just throwing them into the pot and being boring. I'm very neat and fluent with my actions. Some people would refer to that as tricks I suppose. I don't tell people to pick a card any card or anything like that though. So, that is very difficult to answer.

If i stand the button up on its end can you throw a card so that it slides under without knocking it over? Ive yet to see this done successfully.

Yes, other items I can do this with include a food menu, a drink, a book, a phone, a mp3 player and box of cigarettes. Nothing more interesting has come in yet.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Is she as good at poker as she claims?

 

[Warwelde]

I've always wanted to play a game in a casino, but I've always been afraid of making a faux pas and pissing everyone off. How forgiving are you and other players to newbies?

What's a Faux Pas? Sorry for being a gamblernewb :3

 

[Illesdan]

My first 'real' job was in the casino industry about thirteen years ago. After working a couple of years in janitorial aspect of it, I got my certificate in dealing blackjack. I personally enjoyed it, and was told I was quite good at it, but I couldn't be around the cigarette smoke (I'm not a smoker; I quickly developed a type of asthma being around it so much) so after six weeks I had to quit.

So my question is; do they allow smoking at the tables in Britain? Do they have special sections for non-smokers? Or is the air filtration system good enough that it doesn't really matter?

As for table etiquette and being new; the best thing you can do when you are first trying to get into table game is talk to a non-busy dealer or table supervisor and let them know you are new and ask what is expected of you and what you should and should not do. Trust me, it made my life so much easier when a first-timer would tell us they were new.

 

[Beldaros]

Is she as good at poker as she claims?

You do realise that the song pokerface has nothing to do with gambling? I know you were joking, but I felt I should point that out.

I've always wanted to play a game in a casino, but I've always been afraid of making a faux pas and pissing everyone off. How forgiving are you and other players to newbies?

What's a Faux Pas? Sorry for being a gamblernewb :3

A Faux Pas is not a word attached to gambling, you can make a Faux pas at dinner, in a theatre, on a bus, in the men's bathroom. It is a vialation of accepted social norms in any situation.

My first 'real' job was in the casino industry about thirteen years ago. After working a couple of years in janitorial aspect of it, I got my certificate in dealing blackjack. I personally enjoyed it, and was told I was quite good at it, but I couldn't be around the cigarette smoke (I'm not a smoker; I quickly developed a type of asthma being around it so much) so after six weeks I had to quit.

So my question is; do they allow smoking at the tables in Britain? Do they have special sections for non-smokers? Or is the air filtration system good enough that it doesn't really matter?

As for table etiquette and being new; the best thing you can do when you are first trying to get into table game is talk to a non-busy dealer or table supervisor and let them know you are new and ask what is expected of you and what you should and should not do. Trust me, it made my life so much easier when a first-timer would tell us they were new.

There is a nation wide ban on smoking indoors in a public area in britain. So, no, they do not allow smoking at the tables. I don't think I could do the job if they did. The way casino's are designed though, I can imagine that smoke wouldn't be too much of an issue, as the ceiling is so high in the average casino.

Also, I agree with you about the etiquette to a degree, but it is imposible to give give a do's and don't's lesson in detail for poker at least. Tell the dealer that you have never played before definately, most dealers are very paitent and will help you with whatever you need.

 

[Electrogecko]

Why is card counting so frowned upon? It's a genuine skill and if someone can do it they should be allowed...

Also, have you ever actually witnessed a royal flush being revealed at the last stage of a poker round?

A casino makes money solely by providing people with unbeatable games. Roulette for example is actually impossible to beat with stragegy, there is no stragegy that works. Card counting is frowned upon, quite simply because it works and a casino can lose a lot of money because of it. At the end of the day casino is business. It needs to survive, if everybody learnt to count cards, casino's would go broke across the world.

Last stage of a poker round... Do you mean at the end of a tournament? No I haven't. I have dealt 5 royal flushes in my time at the casino, witnessed a sixth, one was on the table. all six were during a cash game though. I do not understand the question entirley, but I think that will answer it either way.

Maybe he means on the river.

 

[Illesdan]

I thought I had heard there was a ban on smoking indoors in Britian, but I didn't know to what extent. There is an indoor ban on smoking here in Oregon, as well, but since Indian reservation lands are self-governed, they aren't required to follow the same rules as set outside of the reservation territory. So, the place I used to work at chooses not to enforce it. Which is too bad; I would love to go back, but not at the cost of my health. Guess I'll be staying in the newspaper industry....

 

[Private Custard]

What's the most common 'tell'?

Does everyone have one?

It is true that everone has a tell yes, well many in fact. It is genuinly harder to figure out someone's tells when you are playing them, but when I'm at work I don't miss much.

I'd say the most common tell comes from people talking. Sometimes it is a shaky voice, sometimes it is the words. When I am playing, the first thing I usually try to do is get someone talking even, if it's not related to the hand. Keep someone talking and you can get everything you need to know. If someone doens't want to talk to you, they are usually bluffing. (Note that experienced players are awre of this though.)

Everyone has there little quirks though, being able to read a person away from a table makes it easier whilst on a table.

Cool, I'll have to try the talkie method next time I'm up against some strangers.

One other question. Have you ever stuck someones head in a vice or smashed their hand with a hammer?

Just kidding!

 

[Beldaros]

How do you feel as a part of the workforce of the cancer of society that is gambling?
How does being part of the workforce of the cancer of society that is gambling make you feel?

for me, the job is pretty depressing. the amount of money people spend is very sad. Money that could have gone to a good cause or a third world country.

The job itself, I hate. The customers, I guess in all honesty I hate them for the most part too. However, there is something about the kind of community that we work in that makes it so bearable. The people you work with are incredible. I am surrounded by gorgeous women and genuinely interesting guys from all over the world. We have a lot of fun. If I was single I'd have a lot of sex, and I leanr something new each day.

Yes, gambling is a cancer. I refer to my job as a euthenasia to assist people in their financial suicide. The parts of the job, that are not the job though, I enjoy very much.