Man, we were never trained to place bets on the racetrack... We have to learn all the French Bets numbers off by heart and place them on the layout... Wish I knew how the racetrack works. Seen them at other Casino's but we don't have them.
Quite a while ago i worked in a French casino. We had to make the chip change, place the table chips on the neighbours and announce them all whilst the ball was spinning. The average would be 3 callbets bets managed. With the racetrack the dealer can accept at least 5 bets per spin. The first time i saw the race track was in Dublin, i took off the previous dealer and asked what the thing was. Told it was a racetrack, i span the ball and used it immediately on a table full of chinese players.
Running down chips is time wasted and its easy to run down chips, conceal one and then run back up with the same hand. The surveillance/supervisors monitors correct payouts by amount of stack in comparison to
complete stacks.
Also the cleaning of hands suggested is also not necessary as no cash has been accepted, all value chips and payouts are cut down with the inside hand and stacked up with the outside hand and he is neither arriving or leaving the table.
At our casino we do run down and clear hands every time we handle chips. I see your point as to this being time wasted, although to be fair it is a tiny amount of time. If we compare it to a situation where dealers may not be up to scratch or may be dealing "lazy" (that is to say having a mini-break after making payouts instead of spinning up the wheel) then clearing hands/running chips down really is not a big problem.
These guys were pretty hot on the calculations too though. We moved on from the regular picture bets within the first fews days.
The reason they are not running down the chips is that they are precise in chip cutting. You can see that from the other dealers constantly practicing whilst acting also as customers. We actually do timing chip exercises with eyes closed.
Like I say for 14 days this guy is much better than I was in many ways. And in a different language!
Everyones different and i was just good at the maths. All the colour out at 25p, 50p, £1, £2 and £5 was a comfort zone but watch me crash and burn 8, 10, 11, 13 neighbours and splits by 5!
Anyway, certainly good trainees and got a good future ahead of him. The alarm bells were ringing about the clearing of the hands though! :-)
Was I better? Depends what on? At the call bets? Certainly not!
Yours guys are good at that. With the maths, i was good. I would like to think I would have been quicker than Christian in getting the 112 (guessing 2 straight up, 2 splits and a corner?).
But then our call bets are by min £5 so we didn't get as many but they required colour changes or cash changes during the spin with change on 1,2,3...
My training school was 6 weeks. We had 4 weeks on roulette, 1 week on bj, and the remainder on TCP, LIR, CSP and texas hold'em.
Chipping up, pushing stacks and spinning practice were the first 2-3 hours of the day with individual mental arithmatic test in that time. Then we were introduced to things such as call bets progressively.
8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Fun times, but then that was 3 years ago now.
You can see they're still learning by struggling with the racetrack but still very impressive. 14 days of training is good.
How were they doing with a call bet which required a colour change? e.g. Given 2 £5 chips for Tier by 1? Maybe even with change on 5,10,23 and 8?
I noticed they didn't spread their chips when they paid out. Certainly fine for an experienced dealer, for surely for a trainee they would benefit from being precise
Only other critisism is they could clear they're hands more
Good effort for 14 days. Training at the casino I work at is double that in training time with results that are not necessarily better.
jayelzee 1 month ago
romani?
dumitruadox 5 months ago
By the way, good job for two weeks worth of training!! Very impressive!!
bohun28 10 months ago
you did a good job with my friends from work.very nice
picolinoar 1 year ago
Man, we were never trained to place bets on the racetrack... We have to learn all the French Bets numbers off by heart and place them on the layout... Wish I knew how the racetrack works. Seen them at other Casino's but we don't have them.
La1930CosaNostra 1 year ago
Quite a while ago i worked in a French casino. We had to make the chip change, place the table chips on the neighbours and announce them all whilst the ball was spinning. The average would be 3 callbets bets managed. With the racetrack the dealer can accept at least 5 bets per spin. The first time i saw the race track was in Dublin, i took off the previous dealer and asked what the thing was. Told it was a racetrack, i span the ball and used it immediately on a table full of chinese players.
aacasino 1 year ago
Jesus, how do you remember who bet what?
RussellsParadox 1 year ago
part 2..
Running down chips is time wasted and its easy to run down chips, conceal one and then run back up with the same hand. The surveillance/supervisors monitors correct payouts by amount of stack in comparison to
complete stacks.
Also the cleaning of hands suggested is also not necessary as no cash has been accepted, all value chips and payouts are cut down with the inside hand and stacked up with the outside hand and he is neither arriving or leaving the table.
aacasino 2 years ago
@aacasino
Different procedures for different casinos.
At our casino we do run down and clear hands every time we handle chips. I see your point as to this being time wasted, although to be fair it is a tiny amount of time. If we compare it to a situation where dealers may not be up to scratch or may be dealing "lazy" (that is to say having a mini-break after making payouts instead of spinning up the wheel) then clearing hands/running chips down really is not a big problem.
bohun28 10 months ago
Thanks Drew for the compliments.
These guys were pretty hot on the calculations too though. We moved on from the regular picture bets within the first fews days.
The reason they are not running down the chips is that they are precise in chip cutting. You can see that from the other dealers constantly practicing whilst acting also as customers. We actually do timing chip exercises with eyes closed.
aacasino 2 years ago
Like I say for 14 days this guy is much better than I was in many ways. And in a different language!
Everyones different and i was just good at the maths. All the colour out at 25p, 50p, £1, £2 and £5 was a comfort zone but watch me crash and burn 8, 10, 11, 13 neighbours and splits by 5!
Anyway, certainly good trainees and got a good future ahead of him. The alarm bells were ringing about the clearing of the hands though! :-)
drewpeacock89 2 years ago
Was I better? Depends what on? At the call bets? Certainly not!
Yours guys are good at that. With the maths, i was good. I would like to think I would have been quicker than Christian in getting the 112 (guessing 2 straight up, 2 splits and a corner?).
But then our call bets are by min £5 so we didn't get as many but they required colour changes or cash changes during the spin with change on 1,2,3...
See above
drewpeacock89 2 years ago
My training school was 6 weeks. We had 4 weeks on roulette, 1 week on bj, and the remainder on TCP, LIR, CSP and texas hold'em.
Chipping up, pushing stacks and spinning practice were the first 2-3 hours of the day with individual mental arithmatic test in that time. Then we were introduced to things such as call bets progressively.
8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Fun times, but then that was 3 years ago now.
See above
drewpeacock89 2 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. Did you feel you were a better standard after only 14 days training from your training school?
BTW, How long was your training school?
aacasino 2 years ago
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drewpeacock89 2 years ago
You can see they're still learning by struggling with the racetrack but still very impressive. 14 days of training is good.
How were they doing with a call bet which required a colour change? e.g. Given 2 £5 chips for Tier by 1? Maybe even with change on 5,10,23 and 8?
I noticed they didn't spread their chips when they paid out. Certainly fine for an experienced dealer, for surely for a trainee they would benefit from being precise
Only other critisism is they could clear they're hands more
drewpeacock89 2 years ago