[UA] Re: Las Vegas UA

[Aaron Harmon]

I used to work in casinos. I dealt craps and blackjack for 4 years and heard
lots of weird stories, not supernatural, just weird. Also, understand that I
have not seen "Casino, the cooler, etc"
OK, here goes:
Casinos will do jut about anything for a high roller, someone who bets big.
Big bettors are big losers and casinos waant them coming back.
I have heard of:
A high roller who wants to sit at his own table with no other players, a hot
young female dealer, and a towel to cover the fact that he is masturbating.
Violent suicides and murders covered up if they happen in the casino, not to
avoid procecution, but to keep the story out of the media (bad publicity).
All dealers having to pay the pit boss a commision ($20+) for each day of
work or lose their job (Illegal).
Pit bosses firing and hiring dealers as a joke and on a whim.
Pit bosses having sex with dealers in the broom closet on their break under
the threat of being fired.
Dealers being fired because a player won too much money at their table.

Things I have witnessed:
Dealers going to the one bar in the casino where there are no cameras to
drink on break.
Being told to work overtime with no warning ("You're not off. You're staying
four more hours") or lose your job.
Lots of dealers are drug addicts, mostly meth (speed, crank) so they can
work back-to-back 12 hour shifts.
Dealers who do not know how to deal a game being assigned to a game becase
they are sexy (see above).
The casino will replace the deck or dice on a game if players are winning
too much. This often makes players mad and they may stop playing.

Also, I do not know if you know this, and it may be useful, dealers work 60
minutes and then take a 20 minute break throughout their shift. Sometimes
this gets juggled a little to cover tables properly, but this is the rule.
No lunch breaks, just 60 on, 20 off.
There are usually four dealers on a craps table, though a full table can be
run with three (called "inside-stick") and I have seen "half-tables" run
with just one (requires some special equiptment to make the table smaller),
called a "craps crew". They are sort of a team and often all have the same
scedles and hours. They may even be hired and fired as a group, though this
is less common now than it used to be. Craps tables usually have adedicated
supervisor watching the game called a "box-man". SO yes a busy craps game
may require 5 employees to run properly.
Craps dealers are a little arrogant because it takes a long time to become
good at craps. Blackjack (BJ) can be learned in a few days and there are
millions of BJ dealers. BJ is sometimes called "Snapper" and BJ dealers
sometimes called "Skirts" because only "real men" can deal craps, so BJ is a
"woman's game". Women are often looked at with a little disapproval if they
deal craps, because it is a "man's job". It is not uncommon to find a very
old-school craps dealer who will refuse to deal BJ if the casino needs him
to because he sees it as beneath him. Also, it would be very rare to find a
dealer that cannot deal BJ. Craps dealers are a little rare and becomeing
more so as time goes on as craps is losig its populatrity (people think it
is too hard to understand, boo fricking hoo, try dealing it). Roulette is
somewhere in the middle as far as prestige goes.
All the stupid new games like carribean stud and others are often put in one
area by temselves (a group of game tables is called a "Pit") and that pit
may be referred to as Disneyland, because of all the "mickey Mouse" games.
More if I think it it.
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