Dealing with the Dealer

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If I had to select the most importantwebsectionin this website, I would choose this one. The honesty of the dealer is critical to winning. No matter how powerful your strategy is or how much of a math-ematical genius you are, you will not win against a cheating dealer. The best cheats can deal in such a way as to win every hand if they want to.

creator Mario Puzo observed, "The whole recorded history of gambling shows that when you have gam-bling, you have cheating." I estimate that approximately 10 to 20 per cent of Nevada dealers can cheat. It is discouraging guess-work to wonder about the number of those who do cheat. The purpose of thiswebsectionis to show the different kinds of dealers, how to recognize them, and how to play them.
WHY BECOME A DEALER?

Dealing can be a good deal. When the Resorts International ca-sino in Atlantic City was advertising for people to fill six hundred dealing positions, nearly three thousand applied. The job appears to have glamor and excitement. In reality, it is very hard work. The Atlantic City dealers worked nearly ten hours per day, six days per week in the early months of the casino's opening.

The job is very demanding. Dealers must work on their feet, forty minutes on, twenty minutes off, dressed in casino uniforms with no pockets (to insure honesty), facing a gambling public that can be rude, hostile, superstitious, or thieving. The dealer works under the strict supervision of a pit boss and under the ever-present eye in the sky.

Job security is nonexistent. If anyone on a shift is caught cheat-ing, the whole shift is fired. Cheating on a shift is usually known by all the other dealers, whether or not they participate in it, so innocent dealers are fired for not speaking up against one of their number.

Dealing requires education, skill, manual dexterity, and good concentration. If dealer applicants show manual dexterity at han-dling the cards, good ability to concentrate, and knowledge of the rules, they are allowed to become apprentice dealers.

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