Playing on the Job
Having just come from my first day at dealer school, I thought a little recap was in order.
After arriving and finding a seat amongst a group of others at one of the tables, we waited 10 or 15 min for a few stragglers to arrive as they had mistakenly gone to the wrong place for the class. Ahh, I just wish these classes were paid. :P
Our instructors then made their introductions and one by one we introduced ourselves to the class. I was in a fun group of very honest people as most with a smile on their faces stated they were there for the money as student loans or bills just wouldnt pay themselves. I liked that. Honesty is one thing I do hold dear in life.
We then were handed a slew of handouts varying from cheque value and breakdown to cash buy in. I'm still boggled that I'll be handling thousands of dollars daily at my table when I finally finish and am put on the floor full-time. Not that it makes me nervous or anything, just the thought I suppose is what gets me as it's not something I'm familiar with yet.
After this, we were given stacks of cheques and taught how they must be broken down and proven. Basically this is just holding a stack value of cheques in one hand and separating them either by 4 or 5 (depending on value) and evening them out so that a potential player will see that they are the same in value (ie we're not cheating them). If this makes no sense whatsoever, I'll explain later. I'm still grasping the whole thing myself. I do know we all had fun with this. Some were doing alot of joking around in their frustration to master what should have been a simple task. If your right-handed, then you'll always excel doing this with your left in this case. Being ambidextrous helped me a lot and with in 5 minutes or so I had this pretty much down pat. Yay for me!
We were then shown our first game, Baccarat. Blackjack will come later as they said this first one was a good to warm up with. The game seems simple enough with a bit of memorization of the rules, but the hard part was learning the standard shuffle procedure. This is used for both games and is very weighty in the steps it must be done in. Using 8 decks of cards, we were taught the shuffle procedure which had at least 15 different steps if not more. I totally lost count lol
Finally, we were given our own eight decks to take home and told to use an ironing board for practicing our shuffle on as the padding on it is similar to the tables. Yeah homework! *grumbles*
Now if I only hadn't left my ironing board at my last home. I wonder, is this kind of a similar excuse to the old adage of 'the dog at my homework?' :P
After arriving and finding a seat amongst a group of others at one of the tables, we waited 10 or 15 min for a few stragglers to arrive as they had mistakenly gone to the wrong place for the class. Ahh, I just wish these classes were paid. :P
Our instructors then made their introductions and one by one we introduced ourselves to the class. I was in a fun group of very honest people as most with a smile on their faces stated they were there for the money as student loans or bills just wouldnt pay themselves. I liked that. Honesty is one thing I do hold dear in life.
We then were handed a slew of handouts varying from cheque value and breakdown to cash buy in. I'm still boggled that I'll be handling thousands of dollars daily at my table when I finally finish and am put on the floor full-time. Not that it makes me nervous or anything, just the thought I suppose is what gets me as it's not something I'm familiar with yet.
After this, we were given stacks of cheques and taught how they must be broken down and proven. Basically this is just holding a stack value of cheques in one hand and separating them either by 4 or 5 (depending on value) and evening them out so that a potential player will see that they are the same in value (ie we're not cheating them). If this makes no sense whatsoever, I'll explain later. I'm still grasping the whole thing myself. I do know we all had fun with this. Some were doing alot of joking around in their frustration to master what should have been a simple task. If your right-handed, then you'll always excel doing this with your left in this case. Being ambidextrous helped me a lot and with in 5 minutes or so I had this pretty much down pat. Yay for me!
We were then shown our first game, Baccarat. Blackjack will come later as they said this first one was a good to warm up with. The game seems simple enough with a bit of memorization of the rules, but the hard part was learning the standard shuffle procedure. This is used for both games and is very weighty in the steps it must be done in. Using 8 decks of cards, we were taught the shuffle procedure which had at least 15 different steps if not more. I totally lost count lol
Finally, we were given our own eight decks to take home and told to use an ironing board for practicing our shuffle on as the padding on it is similar to the tables. Yeah homework! *grumbles*
Now if I only hadn't left my ironing board at my last home. I wonder, is this kind of a similar excuse to the old adage of 'the dog at my homework?' :P