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Imagine yourself as a high stakes casino blackjack or poker dealer, flipping cards to the rich and famous. Or perhaps you prefer to work behind the scenes as a casino pit clerk, cage cashier, slot technician, or casino surveillance officer. Those are only a few of the hundreds of entry-level casino and gaming related jobs available to you. With new casinos opening every year both in the United States and abroad, the opportunities are nearly endless.

Being a Casino game dealer can be fun, challenging, and lucrative. Many dealers find roulette to be one of the more interesting games to deal. Although it is a bit repetitive like blackjack, there are different things roulette dealers do. In blackjack it's constantly dealing and counting the cards, and paying or taking money. In roulette dealers pick up chips, spin the ball, and move chips around on the layout. But the tips are a little bit less at roulette. Bettors tend to wager less money on roulette than on blackjack, and they tend to tip in proportion to what they are playing.

What is the most challenging part about roulette for dealers? Definitely the totaling of bets because there are so many combinations to figure out. Sometimes the math can get a bit hard. But you get used to it after a while. You'll be able to look at the layout and know how much to pay without even thinking about it. And you have to be very diligent about watching the entire roulette table, especially when it becomes crowded. Manual dexterity also comes into play as a roulette dealer. When you are working out of a tray on the blackjack table, you just take the chips out to pay the players or pick up bets. But in roulette you have stacks and stacks of chips to slide across the table to the players. That's why dealers receive a lot of breaks. Not only is there constant repetitive motion in roulette, but it also requires constant mental concentration in order to keep it all together.
After several years of dealing, one can expect to climb their way up the ladder. In a casino, the usual hierarchy goes dealer, floor supervisor, pit administrative boss or supervisor, assistant shift manager, shift manager, and finally, casino manager. As an assistant shift manager, you usually help shift manager with whatever tasks needed that day. On the regular shift manager's days off the assistant operates as the shift manager. As such, they are basically in charge of the entire casino during that particular shift. The gaming industry is definitely a service industry now and their main desire is for people to have fun. They make sure that the customers are having a good time. But their main responsibility is still to watch the money and to ensure that everything is on the up and up.

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The Rules Of Texas Hold'em
By James Woolley

There are many variants of poker, but the most widely played game is texas hold'em. Many people would agree that it's also the most exciting game because it's a very fast game, particularly online where hands are played out quicker. In this article I will explain the rules of texas hold'em.

The rules are relatively simple, but let's start at the beginning. The game, which can be played between two and ten players, begins with a player being chosen as the dealer, denoted by a dealer chip next to them. Players to the left of the original dealer then take turns to be the dealer in subsequent hands.

Before a card is dealt an ante is created with the player to the immediate left of the dealer placing a small blind into the pot, and the player to the left of him placing a big blind. This ensures that for every hand you play, there is always at least a small ante to play for.

Then dealing begins with each player receiving two cards face down. Betting action then begins with the player to the left of the big blind. He can either call, ie match the big blind, fold, or raise.

After this round of betting finishes, the community cards are dealt. These are cards dealt face up onto the table that each player still left in can use to make the best five-card hand possible with the two cards they already hold. Three cards are dealt initially, called the flop, before another round of betting takes place, starting with the player to the left of the dealer this time.

If there are still two or more players left in at the end of this round of betting, another card is dealt, called the turn, and added to the three community cards. Another round of betting then takes place.

Again if there are still two or more players left in at this stage, then one final card is dealt, commonly referred to as the river, to make five community cards at the table. A final betting round then begins. If the remaining players all check or call each other, then a showdown takes place and each players reveals their cards to the rest of the table to determine who takes the pot.

It may seem fairly complicated at first, but once you play several hands you can pick it up surprisingly quickly, and will soon discover for yourself what an exciting game it is to play.