Learn Casino Rules and Language
by Frank Scoblete
In this lesson, you will learn casino rules and distinct
dialects or the language of the casino.
Casinos have their own rules,
language and
culture. If
you don’t want to feel like an unwanted foreigner, you have to
understand the
language and rules and then you must assimilate.
You will find that there’s only one way to do things when in
a casino – the casino rules!
Learn Casino Rules--The
Buy-in
Before you can play any casino table game, you have to
exchange your cash for chips. Here certain casino rules apply. Never
hand your
money directly to the dealer. He isn’t allowed to take anything
directly from
the hands of a player.
In fact, a dealer isn’t even allowed
to shake the hands
of a player. You must put your money on the layout.
The dealer will take the money on the layout and spread it
for the camera and the floorperson to check. The floorperson is the man
or
woman not in uniform who oversees several tables in a pit.
A
pit is a group of
tables, usually of the same game, in a given area of the casino. The
person in
charge of a pit is a pit boss.
Once the floorperson okays the amount of the buy-in, the
dealer then takes chips out of his chip tray and counts out stacks that
will
equal the amount of the buy-in and stuffs the cash into a hole in the
table
where it is collected in a drop-box.
Again, the floorperson
checks to make sure
that the dealer has counted everything out correctly. When the dealer
gets the
nod, he slides the stacks of chips to the player, usually saying, “Good
luck.”
The casinos are sticklers
for the proper buy-in procedures. They have to be. The most frequent
source of
theft in a casino is from the casino’s own personnel.
Of course, even with all the proper procedures in place,
cheating dealers can sometimes be so ingenious in their tricks that
they are
able to rip off their employers anyway.
I saw a video where a dealer was able to shovel chips
directly into her sleeve as she counted out chips or collected chips
from
losing bets. Once she had several chips up her sleeve, she would then
raise her
arm slightly and the chips would go down into her shirt.
If
you weren’t told
what to look for, you would never have seen the move – it was that
fast!
You’ll note that many casinos now have dealers wearing
shirts that have sleeves that cling tightly to the wrists and aprons
that
surround their pants or dresses.
Learn Casino Rules--Betting
Procedures
Casino chips come in all sorts of denominations and colors.
Usually, $1 chip are white (sometimes blue); $5 chips are red; $25
chips are
green; $100 chips are black; $500 chips are purple; $1,000 chips are
gold or
grey, and $2,000 chips are orange.
It’s rare to see denominations larger than $2,000, except in
some high roller rooms.
The sizes of the chips vary as well. The $1 to $500 chips
are the same size but, usually, the $1,000 and higher denominations are
somewhat larger.
Once you have your chips, you can begin to bet. However,
even here there are certain casino rules that must be followed. When
you
are
betting different denominations of chips, you must place the highest
denomination
on the bottom and go up accordingly.
So if you want to bet $131, you’d put a black chip on the
bottom, a green chip on top of that, a red chip on the green chip, and
a white
chip on the red chip.
With the exception of roulette, all casino table games
within the same casino use the same denominations and colors. Because
individual bets from a variety of players are stacked next to and upon
one
another, roulette games have many different colored chips, the
denominations of
which are determined by the player.
When a player buys in at
roulette, he’ll
state what he wants the value of his particular colored chips to be.
Suffice it to say that if you trying to
learn casino rules, it’s always best to ask first, before you
get
yourself upset or into hot water.
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