Dealing
with the Dealer
In
Atlantic City, since Resorts had to hire New Jersey
resi-dents, the dealers were put through a casino-sponsored
"dealers school." In Las Vegas, new dealers
must put themselves through a private dealing school.
Even then, it is nearly impossible to get a job
in a major casino without experience. New dealers
must start at small casinos outside major areas
such as the Strip.
Why
would someone go to all this trouble to become a
dealer? For some, the dealer's job is one with "class"
in "part of the ac-tion." For others,
it's the money. In an article appearing in Gambling
Times magazine, Walter Tyminski (editor of the Rouge
et Noir News gambling newsletter) analyzed figures
from the Ne-vada Gaming Abstract. He found that
the average salary of dealers working in a casino
winning $20 million or more per year to be $12,370
per year.
The
average salary was this low because tips supplement
wages. Average tips for Blackjack dealers at large
Las Vegas Strip casinos are approximately $50 per
day. On an annual basis, this amounts to an additional
$12,500 per year! Dealing isn't such a bad way to
earn a living after all.The following set of rules,
supplied courtesy of John Luckman at the Gambler's
website Club in Las Vegas, are given to newly employed
Blackjack dealers in one downtown Las Vegas casino.
Rules differ in each casino, and are listed here
to give you an idea of the complexity of the game
from the dealer's and casino's point of view:
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