Illini,
my suggestion is poker is the way to go. Right now the popularity of the game is exploding and many casinos are opening or expanding their poker rooms.
None of the jobs are as glamorous as they seem to be from the tourist perspective.
I can tell you that if you are good at your job you will be noticed. Believe me when I saw there are a TON of idiots in the casino business and the sharp ones are few and far between. Every place I have ever worked at has taken notice of me, and I have moved up the ranks with NO juice.
Sorry for the delayed response, I have been extremely busy lately with the opening of our poker room and I was promoted to shift manager, so any of you poker players feel free to stop by and say hi.
my suggestion is poker is the way to go. Right now the popularity of the game is exploding and many casinos are opening or expanding their poker rooms.
None of the jobs are as glamorous as they seem to be from the tourist perspective.
I can tell you that if you are good at your job you will be noticed. Believe me when I saw there are a TON of idiots in the casino business and the sharp ones are few and far between. Every place I have ever worked at has taken notice of me, and I have moved up the ranks with NO juice.
Sorry for the delayed response, I have been extremely busy lately with the opening of our poker room and I was promoted to shift manager, so any of you poker players feel free to stop by and say hi.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Darryl Parsons:
An important factor is whether you have to stand up all the time or not. Blackjack dealers for the most part have to stand while poker dealers get to sit. And in poker I think you keep your own tokes.
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I don't think of "poker dealers" as "casino dealers". Poker dealers deal poker exclusively while casino dealers deal several games and not poker.
You are absolutely right that they keep their own tips and a good poker dealer can do quite well. Demand is crazy right now. I hear all over the place that they are training new dealers and can't get enough.
You need the right personality, like a duck all the water (abuse) should run off your back. If you let it affect you personally and not follow the golden rule, hear all, see all, say nothing, then it can be stressful. Only you can decide if you can tolerate the idiots screaming at you. Ideally players should behave as ladies and gentlemen and whether they do is frequently a function of management attitude at the room you work.
An important factor is whether you have to stand up all the time or not. Blackjack dealers for the most part have to stand while poker dealers get to sit. And in poker I think you keep your own tokes.
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I don't think of "poker dealers" as "casino dealers". Poker dealers deal poker exclusively while casino dealers deal several games and not poker.
You are absolutely right that they keep their own tips and a good poker dealer can do quite well. Demand is crazy right now. I hear all over the place that they are training new dealers and can't get enough.
You need the right personality, like a duck all the water (abuse) should run off your back. If you let it affect you personally and not follow the golden rule, hear all, see all, say nothing, then it can be stressful. Only you can decide if you can tolerate the idiots screaming at you. Ideally players should behave as ladies and gentlemen and whether they do is frequently a function of management attitude at the room you work.
Besides the second hand smoke, which got me to stop, it has to be one of the least glamorous positions around. Hand after hand after hand. I hung out with many dealers when I was a house player. Taxing tips sure did not help. It is much different when you on the other side, as a job, then wandering around as a customer. I think it is a grind. The only position I would consider is floor manager or casino vip host. The rest are just too monotonous. Best Wishes...OF
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by GreenDoberman:
Omnivorous,
floor manager is pretty monotonous as well.
As for the smoking, many poker rooms have gone to completely non-smoking with the success of that format at Bellagio. BTW, the IP is an entirely no smoking room as well.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Great News ... I'll stop in and see you sometime.
Omnivorous,
floor manager is pretty monotonous as well.
As for the smoking, many poker rooms have gone to completely non-smoking with the success of that format at Bellagio. BTW, the IP is an entirely no smoking room as well.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Great News ... I'll stop in and see you sometime.
As a floor manager, you have the liberty of roaming around and talking to who you choose. Hopefully the fat drunken whale. When your at the table, it's the stiffs in front of you. And what are you doing, feeding the three to five sharks on the table. Steady diet of fresh fish, especially on the weekend. Pretty soon you have seen enough, you start playing. And you win. Now 16 to 17 hours a day, you are on the table. Glad the smoke is gone. I'm outta dem carpet joints...OF
My advice to you forget it.It is shit.Vegas is shit.Your customers will be shit.The hours are shit.The place you will have to start off working will be shit.When you get experience and move up to a nice place your jagoff pitboss who thinks he is a gangster and actually knows nothing about gambling will be shit.Your co-workers will be shit.
I just moved out of Vegas and back to Chicago in to reality.I worked in R+S.Let me ask you this are you ready for that life?Your day starting when the rest of the worlds is ending and yours ending when people are just starting those days.Because those are the shifts you will be working.Also be very careful you will notice when your shift is off how everybody likes to hang around and drink,gamble,and you will see how many of these dealers and waitress can't shovel enough cocaine up their noses.
It can be fun for a while and TV and everything else makes living and working in Vegas like there is nothing better but that trust me that is the furthest from the truth.All you hear about is how Vegas is the fastest growing city and blah blah.But what you hear less of is how many people are moving out of that hellhole and it is almost as astounding as the amount that are moving there.
I just moved out of Vegas and back to Chicago in to reality.I worked in R+S.Let me ask you this are you ready for that life?Your day starting when the rest of the worlds is ending and yours ending when people are just starting those days.Because those are the shifts you will be working.Also be very careful you will notice when your shift is off how everybody likes to hang around and drink,gamble,and you will see how many of these dealers and waitress can't shovel enough cocaine up their noses.
It can be fun for a while and TV and everything else makes living and working in Vegas like there is nothing better but that trust me that is the furthest from the truth.All you hear about is how Vegas is the fastest growing city and blah blah.But what you hear less of is how many people are moving out of that hellhole and it is almost as astounding as the amount that are moving there.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by NICKYTHEFISH:
My advice to you forget it.It is shit.Vegas is shit.Your customers will be shit.The hours are shit.The place you will have to start off working will be shit.When you get experience and move up to a nice place your jagoff pitboss who thinks he is a gangster and actually knows nothing about gambling will be shit.Your co-workers will be shit.
I just moved out of Vegas and back to Chicago in to reality.I worked in R+S.Let me ask you this are you ready for that life?Your day starting when the rest of the worlds is ending and yours ending when people are just starting those days.Because those are the shifts you will be working.Also be very careful you will notice when your shift is off how everybody likes to hang around and drink,gamble,and you will see how many of these dealers and waitress can't shovel enough cocaine up their noses.
It can be fun for a while and TV and everything else makes living and working in Vegas like there is nothing better but that trust me that is the furthest from the truth.All you hear about is how Vegas is the fastest growing city and blah blah.But what you hear less of is how many people are moving out of that hellhole and it is almost as astounding as the amount that are moving there.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
After spending 17 years in Sin City myself, all I can say to your post is..........
My advice to you forget it.It is shit.Vegas is shit.Your customers will be shit.The hours are shit.The place you will have to start off working will be shit.When you get experience and move up to a nice place your jagoff pitboss who thinks he is a gangster and actually knows nothing about gambling will be shit.Your co-workers will be shit.
I just moved out of Vegas and back to Chicago in to reality.I worked in R+S.Let me ask you this are you ready for that life?Your day starting when the rest of the worlds is ending and yours ending when people are just starting those days.Because those are the shifts you will be working.Also be very careful you will notice when your shift is off how everybody likes to hang around and drink,gamble,and you will see how many of these dealers and waitress can't shovel enough cocaine up their noses.
It can be fun for a while and TV and everything else makes living and working in Vegas like there is nothing better but that trust me that is the furthest from the truth.All you hear about is how Vegas is the fastest growing city and blah blah.But what you hear less of is how many people are moving out of that hellhole and it is almost as astounding as the amount that are moving there.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
After spending 17 years in Sin City myself, all I can say to your post is..........
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by NICKYTHEFISH:
My advice to you forget it.It is shit.Vegas is shit.Your customers will be shit.The hours are shit.The place you will have to start off working will be shit.When you get experience and move up to a nice place your jagoff pitboss who thinks he is a gangster and actually knows nothing about gambling will be shit.Your co-workers will be shit.
I just moved out of Vegas and back to Chicago in to reality.I worked in R+S.Let me ask you this are you ready for that life?Your day starting when the rest of the worlds is ending and yours ending when people are just starting those days.Because those are the shifts you will be working.Also be very careful you will notice when your shift is off how everybody likes to hang around and drink,gamble,and you will see how many of these dealers and waitress can't shovel enough cocaine up their noses.
It can be fun for a while and TV and everything else makes living and working in Vegas like there is nothing better but that trust me that is the furthest from the truth.All you hear about is how Vegas is the fastest growing city and blah blah.But what you hear less of is how many people are moving out of that hellhole and it is almost as astounding as the amount that are moving there.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
A lot of people are moving out because they bought a house here 10 years ago and almost tripled there money. That's a pretty good "jump start" on a new life. I can't blame people for not wanting to work in a Casino. I could do without drunken, obnoxious, smoking A-holes.
Bad Jobs ?
Years ago I was a coast to coast Truck Driver and as a kid I worked nights washing dishes in a Seafood Restarant. I also worked in a factory sticking metal in a hole all day until my hands were raw. Working in a Casino is a "piece of cheese" compared to a lot of things people do "in the real world."
Good luck back in Chicago !
[This message was edited by Kiss1 on May 27, 2004 at 11:34 AM.]
My advice to you forget it.It is shit.Vegas is shit.Your customers will be shit.The hours are shit.The place you will have to start off working will be shit.When you get experience and move up to a nice place your jagoff pitboss who thinks he is a gangster and actually knows nothing about gambling will be shit.Your co-workers will be shit.
I just moved out of Vegas and back to Chicago in to reality.I worked in R+S.Let me ask you this are you ready for that life?Your day starting when the rest of the worlds is ending and yours ending when people are just starting those days.Because those are the shifts you will be working.Also be very careful you will notice when your shift is off how everybody likes to hang around and drink,gamble,and you will see how many of these dealers and waitress can't shovel enough cocaine up their noses.
It can be fun for a while and TV and everything else makes living and working in Vegas like there is nothing better but that trust me that is the furthest from the truth.All you hear about is how Vegas is the fastest growing city and blah blah.But what you hear less of is how many people are moving out of that hellhole and it is almost as astounding as the amount that are moving there.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
A lot of people are moving out because they bought a house here 10 years ago and almost tripled there money. That's a pretty good "jump start" on a new life. I can't blame people for not wanting to work in a Casino. I could do without drunken, obnoxious, smoking A-holes.
Bad Jobs ?
Years ago I was a coast to coast Truck Driver and as a kid I worked nights washing dishes in a Seafood Restarant. I also worked in a factory sticking metal in a hole all day until my hands were raw. Working in a Casino is a "piece of cheese" compared to a lot of things people do "in the real world."
Good luck back in Chicago !
[This message was edited by Kiss1 on May 27, 2004 at 11:34 AM.]
Fish knows better than I, but from what I know the Nicky post is balls on accurate.
You ever heard the saying.. "Great place to visit but would not want to live there"?
I think that goes double for Vegas. Huge numbers of people moving out. How can anyone want to raise kids in this hell hole?!
Sin City for sure , but people misunderstand.
Not sinful for the nude shows and such. Sinful for all the behind the scenes planning to take avery advantage of weakness in human nature. These places are lining their pockets and KILLING families all across the country.
Most "sinful" part is this... It is all very calculated and they are crippling people intentionally!
You ever heard the saying.. "Great place to visit but would not want to live there"?
I think that goes double for Vegas. Huge numbers of people moving out. How can anyone want to raise kids in this hell hole?!
Sin City for sure , but people misunderstand.
Not sinful for the nude shows and such. Sinful for all the behind the scenes planning to take avery advantage of weakness in human nature. These places are lining their pockets and KILLING families all across the country.
Most "sinful" part is this... It is all very calculated and they are crippling people intentionally!
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Packer:
Fish knows better than I<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Fish is a fvcking idiot for spending 17 years of his life in a place he claims he hates. This is a free country if you don't like where you live MOVE THE FvCK OUT !
Fish knows better than I<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Fish is a fvcking idiot for spending 17 years of his life in a place he claims he hates. This is a free country if you don't like where you live MOVE THE FvCK OUT !
Kiss you can make it peachy all you want.The facts are people are moving out because it is a shit town.No culture,crime rate that is starting to rival bigger cities such as NY,Chicago,LA.How about the constant feeling of trying to be sucked in to casinos.Cash your check here win 200,000 kind of shit.Now if you are not going to casinos there WTF are you going to do?Its not like you can go and take a day and go to some museums,architecture,aquariums or shit like that because they have none.You could maybe go take a swim in lake meade that is if you feel like coming up from under the water with all the toxins they find in there that airplanes dump as they are flying over.Or wait maybe you could take the family over to the new museum that the fvcking weirdo mayor is going to open.The Organized Crime museum!Are you kidding me?
Packer is exactly right that town preys on the weakness of human nature.What a great place!
And I will enjoy Chicago by the way.
Packer is exactly right that town preys on the weakness of human nature.What a great place!
And I will enjoy Chicago by the way.
