In spite of the current weather I am happy to be in Colorado, more-over happy to be OUT of New Mexico/Hell.
Check this out... I have had hardly any pain since I got here! thumb or neck! Scott says it is Psycho-symatic, what ever.. its gone, well seems it moved into his thumb.
The job is working out well so far, in all of a week I have had it. I'm not actually a Pit Supervisor yet, because we don't have the pit in yet, but lots of research and planning.
My title is actually Lead Pit Supervisor and I am the right-hand (wo-)man to the tablegames manager who I worked with back in Vegas.
Colorado is very impressive in many ways! I like the city, as I am in a Denver suburb, I have almost as much access as I did to everything, in Vegas. People are nicer than anywhere else i have ever lived. Even tho my drive to work is almost an hour in good weather, it is a beautiful drive thru the mountains. Tho the other day it was snowing like mad and it took 2.5 hours to get home.
well thats about it from me for tonight. I think the new locale will help me feed my blog-monster :)
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Congratulations!
I glad the "in Colorado" is working out well for you and I think the "out of New Mexico" is the best part of it all.
My most recent craps game was on one of those offshore boats again. In a certain sense it is nice to be able to have the ability to blame my poor performance on the rolling decks.
Fleastiff, i am guessing the last craps outing was not a win.
i am somewhat anxious to see a craps game again.
but at the same time frightened.
Hoping the employer has some pit management classes for us to attend somewhere....
No that previous voyage didn't go so well for me, though I was toking fairly generously. (400 buy-in, left the boat with zilch).
Most on the voyage are retirees so players are often hard of hearing and one guy kept asking me questions as well as asking the dealer. At the end of the game, I made sure that player tipped the dealers. I'm sure he drove them crazy. He sure drove me crazy! When he asked why the dealer picked up his PassLine bet but left my DontPass bet there, I thought too late to tell him "because I'm tipping them and you are not". (Obviously, a 12 had rolled but he didn't know how to play.)
I did an offshore craps boat again though: Had it up to plus 300 on a 300 buy-in but wound up at plus 105for the voyage. For the beginning of the voyage I was the only player and the crew didn't seem to like my doing only the passline/odds and Inside-Place/BuyThe4and10 bets. They tried to get me to do Come bets as well perhaps to make me burn thru my money faster. Or perhaps they really thought it would be better for me. Surely their "I wonder why we have a Come area" was directed at me since there were no other players at all.
I was doing 4Whites "SixandEight Hardways Two-way" and even when I nolonger was calling them two-way thats the manner in which they set them up. All morning long it seems the six and eight always came soft!
Once, when I made the hardway bet on the come out roll, I called it 'working' and the stick groaned when I rolled a 7.
TWO HOURS before a cocktail waitress showed up!! By that time I was dehydrated. The waitresses do drinks for the slot players and the blackjack players but simply stroll silently past the craps table.
All those boats are getting hurt by the Injun Casinos which will have dice here in a year or so. South East Florida boat is on the market at 20MM but will probably sell for far less. I don't how the dealers fare on those boats now but I've been on several voyages where I was the ONLY person making line bets for the dealers. A few voyages ago, when I added odds to my dealer bet, I think it wasn't just the dealers who darn near fainted, one of the players actually sneered at me for tipping the dealers.
>Hoping the employer has some pit management classes
WHY? When you were a dealer or a boxman you KNEW how a pit should be managed. Now you just have to do it. Do you mean fills and buy-in paperwork, that sort of stuff? Or stuff that might be unique to Colorado rules? I think YOU might have to set up the classes! Who else is around to do it. The only book on it that I've ever heard of is a few years old.
Wow fleastiff, what a story! I would like to go on one of those boats some day!
as for classes... yeah i mean the Colorado specific and the paperwork related malformations...
http://www.dicedealer.com/casino_table_games_supervising.htm MIGHT have something about Colorado, I don't know.
My most recent craps cruises have been a 10.00 to 500.00 table at 5x with a maximum Prop bet Payoff of 1,500. One craps table only and only open Friday night thru Sunday night. Not a very good deal. Buffet is not impressive, its mainly slot play and BJ. I think the craps crew has experienced members who for some reason wound up in Florida. They sure liked my players club card from Vegas with FleaStiff on it! They handed my card around to the BJ dealers and the roulette dealer for a laugh. I think however you would find the cruise to be disappointing. The craps crew could sure benefit from your expertise. I left the table so early in the cruise last time that I had enough time left over to get just about the only thing the boat offers for free, a sunburn! I think I may attempt one more cruise though since its cheaper to board the boat than to get airfare to Biloxi or Vegas. And I sure hate to spend a few days in Biloxi or Vegas if I had only one 300.00 buy-in available! So the boats are a cheap alternative but their only real advantage is a geographical one: I'm in South Florida so its close by. Now if that bill thats in the Legislature passes, craps will be in the various Seminole casinos such as Tampa and Miami and the boats will undoubtedly have sailed their last cruises by then.
Seminoles have offered the Governor of Florida a guaranteed payment of 0.6 Billion dollars for each of the next two years if they get dice and roulette legalized here and Snapper gets out of its legal-limbo.
Once that goes through the gauntlet of nay-saying do-gooders and politicians jockying for a piece of the action, the craps boats will disappear overnight.
So I figure I will take another ocean cruise today.
Fleastiff
have a good trip this time! don't come home epty handed!
>don't come home epty handed!
Alas. I did indeed get totally tapped out. If I go on any more voyages, I have decided to very strictly live up to my name of fleastiff.
Its never the crew's fault if the seven appears but it sure is irritating to have experienced dice crews who ignore the DC because it normally gets so little action. I'll admit I should have stayed a Right Bettor but I tend to think an occasional Seven-Out means I should shift to the Wrong Side. Ofcourse when I see myself getting down to the felt and decide to join all those at the table who are getting place bets paid all the time and getting their pass line bets paid, the inevitable happened: new shooter rolls a 4, I add my odds behind the pass line and I do 44 inside and the very next roll is SevenOut.
When I was shooting I'm usually on the Don'ts but yesterday I rolled three sevens in a row! And I had one roll when I was on the Don'ts wherein I just kept going and going, and rolled 5 a total of six times. I made all those Inside bettors very happy and then darned if I didn't make my point too!
On a 300.00 buy in what is the liklihood of my having done so poorly at a 10.00 5x table?
fleastiff
i have one word for you
consistency!
>Consistency!!
Ah, I think you may be right. My problem is that I stay too long on the Don'ts and tend to accept any event as clear proof that the table has turned to the Donts side.
I think my consistency will unfortunately also involve my no longer being a George to a crew that mumbles, ignores the DC area, wouldn't remind me of odds unless being held at gunpoint and comp actual stiffs to free meals but don't comp me to anything but a free sunburn.
Next time will be PassLine, InsideNumbers, Odds, 2 comebets with odds. Thats it.
No WrongSide action. No Hardways for the dealers. No Dealers in the Field.
i hate to hear it like that, but if the dealers are true lumps then stiff-on...
Yeah, I guess it must be hard for you, as someone who is familiar with living on tips rather than salary, to even hear about someone else being stiffed. Sorry about that.
I don't know if I would describe them as true lumps. When I started out with two line bets the stick called out dealers on the line and he seemed a bit lively and even downright enthusiastic when he soon thereafter called out Dealers Have Odds. So they see what is happening and they sure know it ain't happening much with other players.
Yet, particularly when I'm getting close to the felt they don't remind me to lay odds or tell me what I need to lay. Its all mumble, stand there ignoring the fact that I've got ten dollars in that DC box and a "2" just rolled. By the time I wake them up they've just paid the next roll.
Yet when that Tray Lizard showed up with my cup of ice cubes with a minute splash of OJ at the bottom and I had to inintial the receipt for it, well I'm shooting right handed, I got the dice in my right hand, she is sticking a pen in my face in the middle of my roll, so I scribble right handed but its above the rail height so its not all that of a big deal but they sure did come awake when an uncoordinated klutz had the dice and a pen in his hand! And I'm the only shooter in that game who ever shows clean hands to the camera before picking up the dice and after throwing them.
Sure, what I'm really pissed at is that I'm losing money.
I think I may return to that boat where the dice move at lightening speed and crew open their mouths only to argue with the shot-taking fleas or alzheimer patients who really think their bet from 3 rolls ago was still up. Those dealers make a few mistakes from time to time but they don't ignore any player's bets least of all mine, I'm virtually the only one who tokes at that table. It doesn't bring me much luck there either.
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