I guess the natives really sweat the money here! I have never been pulled off a game when the pace is good and the players are happy/winning. This is the 2nd time in the last 3 weeks, heck in my whole dealing career!
It is very disappointing to me, and probably to the players also, who I have built relationships with, the way I have been molded to.
They throw on dealers who have less experience to slow it down and stop the fun. "killers" I know because I am a killer when it comes to Blackjack.
So I got to be bored the rest of the night...
And lucky me, cap off the night at work with a 6 deck "spading".
Spading is also known as Suiting the deck. Something I have never seen or had to do in any other casino.
I have only ever seen the pit bosses take the decks off the game and put them back into the boxes. I have never even seem them re-suit the decks. Just mark the corners and box them up and send them off (to who knows where).
So now whenever I kill and close a card game I have to put the deck back in its original order and mark the corners with a fat sharpie pen. And how fun is is to 'spade' a menagerie of 6 decks, from a shoe game!
I hope I just get to stay on Craps tonight!
But at least my last toke drop from craps last night before going to cards was nearly 300.00 in greens!
Oh I heard the bosses were upset at us for the players giving us player controlled bets. And he was parlaying for us!
I am starting to wonder where the bosses stand...behind us or in their own corner...
I wish I knew just how to approach them and ask them.
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I guess its okay for management to sweat the money; its just not okay to let their players or their dealers know that they are sweating. Players don't like some killjoy tactics of bring in a cooler or trying to. Dealers don't like being tapped out because there is too much joy at the table as someone is doing well and everyone is making some money for a change and tokes are increasing. Its a short sighted policy to allow any obvious indications. Its supposed to be fun experience for the players. Managers should know that and behave themselves. If they want a flea-infested grinders joint with ultra low table limits... let them say that right out. Red chips only. Morose players who don't toke with the resultant morose dealers who don't care. If they want that they will never have to sweat the money because there won't be any money to sweat over! And that is the greatest loss that a casino can suffer! Perhaps the Indians have not been at it long enough to know that "winnings" are considered a loan to a player that is repayable at any casino. And if the player didn't have fun, he won't repay the loan at that casino. He will go to a fun place that doesn't sweat the money so bad.
Here Here! Well spoken!
Sweat versus Perspiration?
Perhaps it is a question of degree as well as of obviousness.
No one really likes a killjoy no matter what his motives are. Its like a 'wet blanket' at a party. We all know the band will eventually play 'Goodnight Ladies' just as we all know the bartender will eventually sing out 'last call' but we don't want anyone ruining the party prematurely and certainly not unnecessarily. Now is it in the casino's best interest to unobtrusively apply antiperspirant or to openly sweat?
Turning any table games table into a red chips only, morose dealers and morose players lets the house have a table that works its edge against those who are underfunded and more likely to reach ruin.
The CM will never ask that the first thing on his desk each morning is the overnight report on how that five dollar craps table did. Whereas in Vegas, I'm told that often a CM's morning coffee is served with a report of how the overnight High Roller's Baccarat game did. A Sweat The Money place will not have to worry about variance. A Sweat The Money joint has a lower cash flow but an almost guaranteed drop due to the players being underfunded. So does obviously bringing in a supposed cooler aid the short term bottom line? I guess it does. It may limit the upside for the casino long term, but it does make it even more profitable. Just think at how the accountants must be salivating: underfunded players as well as uneducated players! Just perfect for those cowardly bean counters.
oh trust me i think the indians sweat it much more than the corporates of las vegas!
i honestly am not too concerned about it either way, i just find myself pointing out a lot of the differences!
Perhaps its a difficult question to respond to when you are not there to know just how busy the table was, but I'd like to know what would you do if you are a base dealer and one of the three people at your end of the table announces 'ten dollars in the field' and puts down a stack of ten chips which obviously are a stack of reds totaling fifty dollars rather than ten.
i would point it out to the player he bet out more than he stated and that i could only pay the amount he called. and pass back the 40.00 overage and pay the 10, but it if was a supervisor i would do differently, and say the error fell in his favor and pay it all this time, but if it was a loosing bet, i would hand back the overage and only take the 10.00.
stroking, i mean customer service has many double standards!
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