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Date Posted: 18:50:05 05/09/06 Tue
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In reply to: Carrie Jo 's message, "Funny thing happened on the way out the door..." on 18:48:43 05/09/06 Tue

tap in to my last table of the night ("tapping in" is what we call taking over for another dealer, because we have to tap them on the shoulder to let them know it's time for break), and there's five people sitting there, one looking particularly glum and choosing to sit out the first hand I deal. People actually won on this hand! Yeah! This made me very happy, it was nice to give people money instead of taking it from them. So Mr. Glummy guy puts in the last three hundred dollars sitting in front of him, and I deal him a blackjack! He won four hundred fifty dollars in one shot! THis made him very happy, and he started playing two hands then one hand for a few hands then back up to two hands, and back and forth. He would lose a little here and there, but then he'd put another big bet out, and win! This was very fortunate for me, because he tipped me ten dollars, very good for the team. (The 91 dealers on my shift pool all tips made so we don't have to worry about allocation because the tips go directly onto our paychecks, everyone makes equal money, and there's no hassle at tax time and no jealousy about who makes more money than who). Well, he wins some more and tips me fifteen dollars! Wow, great for the team! He loses some then wins something big and tips me another fifteen dollars! That was forty dollars in like six hands! Very exciting for me, because I'd been there for seven hours and had only made about forty or fifty dollars, so I was seriously behind quota. (To keep our paychecks at the higher end of the pay scale, each dealer needs to make about $120 in tips every night). So Mr. Glummy Guy is now Mr. Happy guy and on the next hand, he puts out a ten dollar bet for me! (Players are allowed to place bets for the dealers. They place their own bet in the appropriate betting circle and put whatever amount they want to play for the dealer on the front edge of the betting circle. This is basically the player's way of trying to double the tip they wish to give the dealer. Though if the hand loses, the tip loses and goes to the house and not the dealer. More often than not they win though. We all call it the "bribe system"). So I deal the had and I give myself a four up card, and I give Mr. Happy Guy two twos. Not a very good hand against a four. And he had a four hundred seventyfive dollar bet on the table for himself along with the ten dollars for me. He chooses to split his hand, giving himself two hands, and he splits for me also, so he has two hands at four hundred seventy-five dollars, and both hands have ten dollars out for me. We play on with the first hand, which is now just a two, and when I give him his card, it's a nine, that makes his hand an eleven, an impossible bust hand, so he doubles his bet, and the bet he has out for me making the hand worth $950 for him and $20 for me. He gets a ten on the eleven making his hand 21. That's almost a sure fire win. It cannot lose, but if on the dealer's hand, I were to come to a 21, it would be a tie, and he would neither win nor lose. So we move on to his next hand, and I give him another two, so he once again splits his hand and splits it for me also. At this point I feel a tap on my shoulder, it's time for me to go home, but I can't leave until I finish the hand. So I give him his card and it's a four and he wants another card, I give him an eight, making his total 14, and he stays. Move on to his third hand, and I give him a ten making his hand 12 and he stays. The next two people at the table stand on what they've been dealt and the last guy on the table splits his fours, and both of those get tens giving him two fourteens to my four up card. Now for those of you who don't know anything about blackjack, the basic idea is to have cards that equal more than what the dealer's cards equal, without goin over the sum of 21. It is always assumed that the dealer has a face down card with a value of ten. So it's my turn, and I flip up the hole card (my face down card) and it's a six. This makes me and everyone on the table very nervous, because if the next card I pull is a ten or an ace, everyone loses, because that would give me twenty or twenty one. The next card that came out was a two, giving me twelve. The next card was a three, giving me fifteen. I'm very nervous at this point because of the large amount of money Mr. Happy guy has out on the table, and I seem to be pulling a lot of small cards. Even if I were to draw to seventeen only the hand on which he doubled would win, which would break him even on the round, but it would not be a happy thing for anyone, I could feel the tension rising and I knew for sure if he didn't win on all hands that he would lose his temper. I could hardly stand to look as I pulled out the next card, but when I flipped it over and looked at it, everything seemed to be going in slow motion, I saw it and immediately brokw into a smile before I laid it down for the whole table to see. It was a seven! That meant I had a total of twenty-two, and I had busted, meaning the whole table won! I paid out the first three hands then I got to Mr. Happy Guy's hands and I paid him a total of $1900, and the bets he had out for me a total of $40! That meant that I brought in for the team a total of $80 dollars off one hand! Then, as I finish paying out the last hand on the table and am collecting the cards, Mr. Happy Guy throws a quarter (a chip worth twenty-five dollars) to me and says "That's for you too! I told you if I win you win!" Very exciting for me, that meant that I had, in the course of thirty minutes made $145 from the same gentleman, who in turn was giving everyone on the table who had played that hand with him $25 dollar chips as a thank you for playing according to basic strategy and making it a winning hand. It worked out for everyone. It was a crazy night, but the last hand of the last table of the night was the best thing that had happened all day long. I was talking to my supervisor afterward before I left and she said, "How did you do it?" I looked a little confused and said, "How did I do what?" She said, "How did you get that guy to tip? He is one of the regulars, and he doesn't tip ANYONE, EVER!" I said, "I dunno, maybe I just smiled at him right." We both laughed and she showed me his buy-in card. He had bought in for the night with 22 hundred dollars, and when I tapped into that game, he had three hundred left. Maybe he was just grateful that I had given him back what he had lost for the night. When I walked away from the game, he had nearly four thousand dollars sitting in front of him. And that was after giving me the tips he gave me, and the money he had shared with the other people on the table. I don't know, but maybe coming that close to losing all that money made him a little more thankful for things, and he was showing it.

I was still flying high from that last hand of the night before when I went to work the next night. And even though the tips didn't go very well, because it was another night of the cards not falling in favor of the players, I was hopeful that I might have another last table like the night before.

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