How I Became a Twenty-one Croupier
Becoming a Black-jack dealer was most likely the very best job decision I ever manufactured. I had been jumping from job to occupation doing data-entry and the like, and I was bored to death. Sitting behind a desk in front of the laptop or computer all working day just wasn't "doing it" for me. Not to mention the fork out wasn't that wonderful either.
So, following getting laid off from my last occupation, I hit the classifieds and saw an ad for a Black-jack dealing course. I was a small bit skeptical, pondering it might be a few "fly by night" outfit where they take my money, I take the course and absolutely nothing comes of it. But following I called their head office and asked them in regards to the organization, I discovered that the course was for one of the most common casinos in the lower mainland! They were extending their several hours and needed A lot of dealers.
I'd just been to Vegas with the very first time a couple of months prior to and I bet a minor Black jack. It looked easy ample so I figured "how difficult could it be to deal?" At the task interview, which was basically to sign up with the program, I discovered that it was not all that straightforward. I was given a short written examination to determine if I could, in fact, count card totals and figure Pontoon payouts. I must have done ok because I was called back a number of days later to acquire the four week program.
It was fairly intense. Six days a week, 7 hours a day inside a smaller room with low ceilings and a dozen Twenty-one tables. There ended up about a hundred other individuals from all walks of living using the training course along with me and with the primary week, all we did was count card totals and have lessons about the rules and procedures of Pontoon. Through the end of the very first week, we have been dealing actual games. Believe me when I say that there is certainly A great deal a lot more to it than you believe. I was absolutely blown away at just how much there was to understand, and the amount I even now had yet to discover.
When we reached the end of the last week, there can be the dreaded Table Analyze. If I failed that, I'd be done. Luckily, we have been likely to be having it twice, and the finest score will be taken. I was in the last group to bring the 1st analyze and I was far more than a small nervous. I knew I'd failed that day for sure and I drove residence pondering about all the mistakes I built. The up coming morning, I felt greater and knew what it was I needed to do to be able to pass. When the examiner tried to "trip me up" while using mistakes I had made the day just before, I handled it flawlessly.
I had to wait nearly a week previous to the graduation, and I was literally tearing my hair out. The offer was that if they called me before then, I'd failed. My dad thought it could be amusing to tell me that "someone called in search of you" when I had arrived home from being out. Extremely funny. NOT. But, since I by no means got "the call", I showed up for my certificate and I was on my way to becoming a croupier. I was lucky enough to have the area about 10 minutes from my house and I was excited to begin what just might be a life-long and fulfilling career.
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