Let's talk "old school"...

Get this...

I'm at the orientation/training for supervisors at the new casino, right? They are rolling shifts, pits, floors and dual rates through the various classes for things like Table Touch, procedures, customer service, security training, etc... and yesterday morning it fell out that ALL the shift bosses and all the pit bosses had ASCS training at the same time, in a different building. That means that roughly 50 floor and dual rate supervisors were alone, in a dealing school, for upwards of 5 hours... "unsupervised".

There were several choices for me to take. The poker people bellied up to a hold em layout and started a no limit tourney that went till quitting time. The BJ/wheel people showed off their pitch and spin moves, and tried their damnedest to stump the dealer with layouts that you'd only see once or twice in a whole career. Then there was the dice table.

I'm guessing that there is no bigger nightmare for a dealer than a table FULL of craps veterans, and while we don't seem to have any break in suits at this house, the younger elements of our team had a real eye-opener yesterday. On a layout that could only comfortably hold six spots on the numbers, there were an even ten people to an end, and the props never stopped flying (EVER!). The agreement was that the dual rates would deal (since they were supposed to when we go live anyway) and the experienced floors would play and supervise, in the half-assed attempt to demonstrate house ways and procedure to the dual rates and floors from outside of AC. What happened was a full 40 minute roll, during which we had to do three fills from the wheels and monkey games just to keep the cheques on the table. The dice FLEW... and I saw moves I didn't think could be done. I ended up pulling a 40 on the stick, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I can still manage a prop box. I even studded up and managed a few backhand snatches on incoming hardways while I was humped over paying hops and props.

ANYWAY... I am forced now to get back into the habit of charging vigs up-front on all buys, and dealing a 3-4-5 times odds on the line. The AC element within our casino are making themselves known by insisting on squared dice and remarkably full stick calls, but I dug in and got them done anyway, and only swore once (and that was at the kid sitting box because he kept setting up my hardways WRONG). All rules at this house are very similar to the traditional ones we are all familiar with, but some have been thrown out in many places for years, and are back in play here in PA (for example, only losing half your odd-even-black-white bets when a zero-double zero hits on a wheel).

So, as long as I can remember that $108 across costs $110 to set up (with no change), I should be fine...