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| Author: | Felting [ Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:36 pm GMT ] |
| Blog Subject: | Dealer school: Week 1 |
The best analogy I can come up with looking back at my first week at dealer school is the birth and growth of a child. For me, this is my rebirth into a new career. I arrived on tuesday for my first day of school at just before noon. With my main goal being that of becoming a poker dealer, It was decided that I should start learning poker first. My instructor for poker was Chris, a 29 year old guy who had dealt in the area since he was 21. After the formalities of filling out some paper work it was time to get down to the business of learn how to deal. Sticking with the birth and growth analogy, it was now time for me to learn how to crawl. The "crawl" of poker is the shuffle. I thought, no big problem, after all I'd dealt in home games before. As is usual for most people in most situations, my preconceptions where wrong. There is a very detail way to shuffle the cards which, as most things the dealers do, is set up so the overhead camera's can verify that you are doing things... [ Continued ] |
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| Author: | Felting [ Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:58 pm GMT ] |
| Blog Subject: | Dealer School: The road to it |
dealer School I've decided to use the blog section of THP to write about my experience about deciding to attend dealer school, what dealer school is like, and my job search following it. My hope is that someone my find this useful if they are considering doing the same. First let me start with how I got to the point where I decided a change of careers was in order. Previous to beginning dealer school I had been working as an over the road truck driver for the last 4 years. Driving cross country had always fascinated me and so when I had decided that I was burned out on being a restaurant manager I gave it a try. It was a blast and I got to see more of the USA then most people do in their whole lives. In January I hurt my back(not at work) and had to take some time off. When my back was ready to get back to work I found that almost no one would hire me because they didn't want to take the risk with my back. It was at this point that I began to consider my options. At first I thought... [ Continued ] |
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