Before you can play
any casino table game, you have to exchange your
cash for chips. Here certain 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. Often such theft is in collusion
with a player, who is either a friend or relative
of the dealer. By making the physical contact between
dealer and player verboten, it reduces the possibility
of, say, the player announcing he’s buying
in for a $100, getting $100 worth of chips, when,
in fact, he handed the dealer a $10 bill which was
quickly stuffed into the drop-box. 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.
Frank saw a video, presented at a security seminar,
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! In the
past, dealers have shoveled chips into their pants
(usually they’d have a sock in their crotches
that would hold the chips), their mouths, and some
dealers have even “accidentally” (but
fast) dropped chips that their player-henchmen would
later “find” on the floor. 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.
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