How I Became a Blackjack Dealer

by Silas on June 2nd, 2010

Becoming a Black-jack croupier was most likely the very best career judgement I ever built. I had been jumping from occupation to task accomplishing data-entry and the like, and I was bored to death. Sitting behind a desk in front of the computer all day just wasn’t "doing it" for me. Not to mention the shell out wasn’t that good either.

So, right after being laid off from my last job, I hit the classifieds and saw an ad for a Black jack dealing training course. I was a minor bit skeptical, considering it may be several "fly by night" outfit exactly where they consider my money, I consider the program and nothing comes of it. But soon after I called their head office and asked them in regards to the firm, I discovered that the program was for one of the most favorite casinos in the reduce mainland! They were extending their several hours and needed Lots of croupiers.

I’d just been to Vegas for the primary time several months previous to and I played a tiny Black jack. It looked easy ample so I figured "how challenging could it be to offer?" At the job interview, which was basically to sign up for your program, I discovered that it wasn’t all that easy. I was given a short written test to determine if I could, in truth, count card totals and figure Blackjack payouts. I must’ve done ok because I was called back a number of days later to acquire the four week program.

It was fairly intense. 6 days a week, 7 hours a evening inside a tiny room with low ceilings plus a dozen Chemin de fer tables. There have been about a hundred other persons from all walks of lifetime having the course as well as me and to the very first week, all we did was count card totals and have lessons on the rules and procedures of Pontoon. Through the end of the initial week, we had been dealing actual games. Think me when I say that there is A lot more to it than you consider. I was entirely blown away at how much there was to know, and simply how much I still experienced yet to learn.

When we reached the end of the last week, there could well be the dreaded Table Check. If I failed that, I’d be done. Luckily, we were definitely likely to be acquiring it twice, and the greatest score can be taken. I was in the last group to consider the first analyze and I was additional than a small nervous. I knew I’d failed that working day for positive and I drove house considering about all of the blunders I built. The up coming working day, I felt better and knew what it was I had to do as a way to pass. When the examiner tried to "trip me up" while using mistakes I had produced the working day before, I handled it flawlessly.

I had to wait practically a week before the graduation, and I was literally tearing my hair out. The deal was that if they called me previous to then, I’d failed. My dad believed it will be amusing to tell me that "someone called looking for you" when I had arrived home from being out. Really funny. NOT. But, since I never got "the call", I showed up for my certificate and I was on my way to becoming a dealer. I was lucky enough to have the location about 10 minutes from my house and I was excited to start what just might be a life-long and fulfilling career.

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