How To Deal Cards Like A Casino Dealer
How to Deal without a Shuffle Machine or Random Number Generator
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- How To Deal Cards Like A Casino Dealer
Becoming a casino dealer involves more than knowing how to call numbers and deal cards. You have to be a people-person who can multi-task as you chat with the customers while you do your work. You have to be savvy about spotting card-counters and other types of cheaters in order to protect your employers. Enter “Sophie,” a casino dealer turned professional card counter (she requested that her name be changed so casinos cannot identify her). After eight years of dealing table games at a large casino, she became fed up with how casinos were run and decided to put her efforts at taking money out of casinos through card counting at blackjack.
This is good for dealers because there will be times when the shuffle machine or the random number generator is broken and you’ll have to deal the game manually.
Since you have no shuffle machine, shuffle the cards by hand before offering the deck for a cut, just as you would if you were dealing blackjack. If the player is banking then they have the first option to cut the deck.
Take the deck and deal out 7 hands of 7 cards each starting from the dealer’s left hand side and going right. The dealer should keep the deck as low to the table as possible when dealing out the cards. In order for the cameras to verify that all 53 cards have been used, the dealer will spread out the last remaining 4 cards, face down, before being placed in the discard rack. The dealer will then straighten up the stacks, tilting the first hand on the left sideways a bit and the last hand on the right sideways a bit more. This is supposed to represent a dragon, with the lucky head on the left and the unlucky tail on the right.
Normally, this is the time the Random Number Generator would tell us where to deal the first set of cards, but since we don’t have a Random Number Generator, we’re going to have to rely on dice instead. Casinos usually don’t allow the players to shake the dice, but there is one exception to this rule and it’s when the Player is banking. The dealer will shake a dice cup, with 3 dice in it, a few times using only one hand. Every casino is different, some will want you to shake the dice exactly 4 times while others will say between 3 to 5 times, so make sure you know your house rules. The dealer will always be the one to uncover the dice cup; players are not allowed to touch the dice or the dice cup and if the dice bounce out of the cup or is touched by a player, then call over the floorman immediately and inform him of the situation. The floor will inspect the dice before putting it back into action. All bets must be in their betting circle before the dice are uncovered because once the numbers have been exposed no one can alter their bets.
If one of the die lies on top of another die, or is cocked sideways, then call out “No Dice” before shaking the cup again. The 3 dice will be totaled and the number shown will determine where the dragon’s head, or the first set of cards, goes. The dealer will announce the total of the dice before delivering the cards.
The number on the dice corresponds with the placement of the hands. The banker or the dealer will always be position number 1. Then starting from the right hand side going left the dealer will count the spots up to the dice total, giving each position a specific number. The banker-dealer position will always be numbers 1, 8 or 15. Remember, the dealer doesn’t need to count every spot starting from number 1. This would take too much time. Instead, the dealer will use the fact that the banker position is always 1, 8, or 15 and count forward or backwards depending on what number is shown on the dice.
After the dealer has delivered the first set of cards to the spot indicated on the dice, they will continue to distribute the hands, moving in a counter clock-wise rotation. All betting positions will receive a set of cards regardless of whether there is a player sitting there or not. After all of the hands are distributed and the last 4 cards proven to the cameras, the dealer will pick up all of the hands that are in unoccupied spots and place them in the discard rack.
The dice will remain uncovered and unmoved until all of the hands are dealt with, then the dealer will cover the dice, shake the cup and place it to the right of the layout. After that, everyone will continue the game as normal.
What is Dealer Training?
Dealer Training is the online poker dealer school, which teaches you how to deal poker like a professional poker dealer. It was created out of necessity. We needed trained dealers for our pub poker league and didn't have the time or money to send our dealers to a brick and mortar dealing course. Our poker league was growing quickly and we needed an online poker dealer school, but one didn't exist at the time. So we created it. The online course walks you through everything you need to know to be a successful poker dealer.
Why do you want to learn to deal poker?
- I'm a casino / card room manager. I want to provide training for my prospective dealers.
- I'm a poker league owner / manager. I want professionally trained dealers to improve my poker league.
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- I'm a poker player. I want to increase my edge at the table by learning to deal poker.
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The Dealer Training course includes text, pictures, videos, slideshows, and detailed practice outline.
What is Dealer Training?
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If you’ve always wanted to become a poker dealer, but you haven’t had the time or money to pay for an expensive offline course, our Dealer Training program is perfect for you. Dealer Training is an online poker dealer school offered by the Atlanta Poker Club. Here at the APC, we developed this course to train our own dealers for our pub poker league. We likewise didn’t have the time or money to send our volunteer dealers out to get trained at a brick-and-mortar school. Our solution was to create our own course to get our dealers trained up quickly to professional capacity. We have dozens of certified poker dealers helping out with our league now.
And then we thought to ourselves, “Why not make this resource available to hopeful dealers everywhere?” If you enroll in our Dealer Training course, you pay a low one-time fee for access, and you get to study from the comfort of your own home. Our online course walks you through everything you need to know to be a successful poker dealer.
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Why do you want to learn to deal poker? Our product is aimed at several different audiences. Let’s talk about how you can benefit from our poker dealer course, no matter where you fit into the picture.
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If you run a bar poker league like we do, you know that your league cannot survive without professionally trained dealers. The dealers are an integral part of the poker experience, and help you to ensure that players are enjoying a quality game that is both fun and fair. You can purchase our course to assist you in training your own dealers for your local league.
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If you are a poker dealer without professional training and want to up your game, this is the ideal way to do it. Or maybe you are a prospective dealer with no experience. No matter where you are on the learning curve, the Poker Dealer School can get you up to speed. In no time, you’ll be able to deal with the best of them.
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As a poker player, one of the best ways you can increase your edge at the table is by learning how to deal poker. This gives you an inside insight into the game and allows you to view it from a different angle than your opponents. If you become trained as a dealer, you will have a chance to perform better than your opponents and win more games. Whether you are playing professionally or you are a dedicated amateur who just loves the game, you can benefit from our dealer course.
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What’s Inside?
What do you get when you purchase Dealer Training? Dealer Training includes eight chapters along with dealer training slideshows and videos. Here are the modules included in the course:
- Chapter 1: Introduction. Here we’ll talk about the state of dealing and poker, why we created the course and who can benefit from it, and discuss an overview of the course objectives and what you’ll learn along the way.
- Chapter 2: Standards. We’ll teach you about the anatomy of a card, deck, and table so that you know exactly what you’re working with. Then we’ll get on to grips and positions.
- Chapter 3: Mechanics. Now we start getting into the meat of the course. You’ll learn how to prep the deck and shuffle and deal the cards and what to do when it’s time for the showdown.
- Chapter 4: Techniques. Here you’ll learn about tasks like cutting chips which you will perform during the game.
- Chapter 5: Responsibilities. In this section we’ll teach you about your responsibilities during the game as far as controlling the game and pacing it, and what you need to do in-hand and between hands. You’ll learn in detail how to deal with player bets and other aspects of the game. We’ll also tell you what errors to avoid.
- Chapter 6: The Process. Here we teach you the 42-step process from start to finish which you as the dealer need to carry out to execute a hand of poker.
- Chapter 7: Practice. This section will offer up a series of exercises you can use to practice what you’ve learned by putting your knowledge to work. This is the only way you will ultimately learn how to deal poker. You can start out by practicing with a friend, and when you are ready for an audition, you can proceed to the next section.
- Chapter 8: Resources. This is where we’ll tell you how you can start dealing poker in real life. A lot of students get started dealing with a poker league like the APC. Many dealers go on to work professionally in casinos. Others become tournament directors and make money that way.
Our course has plenty of helpful images included, but we also have a series of slideshows to help you learn. These slides show you each process step by step so that you can visually see what is going on as you are reading the instructions in each section. Our videos allow you to see the steps in action and performed by a professional dealer. This can be very helpful not only for understanding each process, but also for getting down the timing.
Even if you have relatively little experience with poker and no experience with dealing, our course is all you need to learn how to start dealing like a pro. You might go on to deal with your local poker league, or you might become a professional casino floor dealer. If you are a player and you do not know how to deal, you will gain a new edge by taking our course. And if you own a league, this is the perfect tool to distribute to your own dealers. Your dealers are one of the primary ingredients in your league’s recipe of success. Give them the tools to do well, and you empower the entire league to succeed.