Becoming a dealer

[NeBlis]

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The new electronic tables will soon make dealing poker an obsolete job, and thank goodness.


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lmao .. you think joe fish is gonna play @ one of those pieces of [censored]?

I live in Atlanta Cherokee casino a few hours away has all electronic games, BJ etc. People drive to Biloxi or Tunica instead.

there have been electronic BJ tables for years. How many do you see? Not one unless its required by law. Why? Because people want to handle cards and chips. Ask yourself why there is a resurgence of table games in the last few years. People want an experience that they cant get at home. People want "the real thing"

Now besides the fact that people won't play on those tables. I don't see why I need to give up the 8billion tells that come from live chips and cards.

[Legislurker]

Take them seriously. One hangup I have with gambling is that it should give something back. I have argued the jobs they create are worth more than the direct extortion the state uses to allow them to operate. If people sit back and let the legislators and corporate spiders suck all the high paying jobs out that casinos give to depressed areas, then a lot of the good you cna argue about for gambling is gone. You mention Tunica. Twenty years ago, it was one of the five poorest counties in the country. Its not Manhattan, but some locals have pulled themselves up from working there, some as dealers. I argued the same thing to people when paper slips replaced currency and tokens. Now, a lot of slot jobs are part time, like the dealer jobs. Slot techs were laid off. Cashiers lost jobs with the automatic coin counters(made obsolete by the tickets). UIGEA shoudl be an impetus to poker players to organize, because the corporate bloodsuckers are coming to squeeze more revenue from us. Higher rakes, electronic tables, and comp rates under $1/hr.
I love poker dealers, and they are part of what makes the poker room almost as nice to go to as Starbucks. But if they stay supine, or we do, their days are numbered. Organize and keep gaming labor intensive.

[Gonso]

You guys have to realize that the vast majority of people coming to the casinos aren't nearly as concerned about overhead and rake and that sort of thing (compared to a given 2+2er). A lot of these people come to gamble, some to the point of almost throwing money away. They want the experience of the table the same as they do at blackjack and so on. I think there's a place for these tables, no doubt, and that they might do well. I think the idea that they'll just extinguish the dealer profession altogether isn't realistic, at least anytime soon.

I remember having this conversation back when online poker was starting to become the new thing. "The games are fast and the rake is cheap, no tipping to worry about... you don't even need to leave your house. Why would anyone play live?"