The
answer you are probably looking for is that the
dealer change is often erroneously credited by
superstitious pit bosses (and players alike) with
ending a player-favorable streak of cards, but
it's actually the players' seeing more hands per
hour that modifies their luck.
Pit
bosses like to push in a dealer whose pitch and
pay-and-take is Speedy-Gonzales-fast, a seasoned
dealer who can handle high-limit action, and deal
more hands per hour. Their reasoning is that the
more blackjack hands that expose you to the house's
built-in odds edge, the faster Speedy G. will
obliterate your bankroll. I do want to mention
here, though, that switching for this reason is
done far less often than you think.
What's
on the clipboard? Nice you should ask: Notes monitoring
chips flowing in and out on the games in the pit,
dropped $100 bills, fill slips, notes of patron
play, even comments that you would freely give
while gabbing with a pit boss. If you happen to
mention that you've got a dog named Chip, the
pooch could well appear in a database upstairs.
Give up your wedding anniversary date, and you
might even see two coupons for a trip to Hoss's
All-you-can-eat buffet in the mail two weeks ahead
of time. Uncanny skill I had when I played pit
bull; making you talk and talk and talk, and once
I sucked Chip's name out of you, I could get anything
else.
At
shift's end, the bulls take their final strolls
with clipboard in hand, count down the trays and
get relatively accurate tallies as to that shift's
wins or losses. Yes, Rossco, casinos do lose in
an eight-hour shift, and more often than you think.
Oh,
and as the pit boss hands off the clipboard to
the incoming shift's pit boss, he or she will
share verbal notes as well, like, "Watch
Rossco on T-7. He's in only $200 and beating the
crap out of us."
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