[UA] Re: Las Vegas UA

[Nenad Ristic]

Thanks a lot guys, will definitelly use the info from Aaron. Good to have
info from someone with an 'inside view'

My players, please stop reading now




Are they gone? Good!

Anyway, here is the setup I am thinking of:

The Casino, called Lakshmi's Dance, was owned by a member of the OU, who
recently died, leaving his interest in the Casino to his son, who has no
idea about the OU.

Since the Casino, due to some architectural oddities, is very important, now
there is a war on to see who gets control of it

A couple of inidents I am thinking of putting in:



On 10/17/06, Aaron Harmon <hkdharmon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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