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4d ago
by DisRuptive1

Just quickly read through the case. The dealers who sued wanted to be paid overtime for their tokes, or the money they make dealing tournament tables. So if they were being paid $20 to deal a tournament table, they wanted $30 instead if they were on overtime. They were making $12.50 an hour and were properly (according to the law) being paid overtime on that. There was also

The ramifications beyond the settlement is that WSOP dealers are unable to get overtime, even if they desire it. This cap on earning has made a lot of dealers unhappy.

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4d ago
by Reducto

Another thing occurred to me about the players moving the button thing. A few years ago I started moving the button before pushing the pot when it made sense. This often cuts players off from doing it themselves.I had a table today with two button movers. One kept moving it to the exact center of the right side of the table. Equidistant from 4 different players so it could be i

I often move the button before pushing the pot when it makes sense from an efficiency standpoint. Button in seat one, seat seven and eight fighting for a pot. Seat 8 bets, seat seven makes it clear he is folding but he is going to have a bit of a card funeral first? Move the button to seat two, then when seven tosses his cards, muck them and push the pot to eight. It also helps to move the button first when pushing the pot to that side of the table.

That said, I probably lead the league in having players posting the big blind when they are actually UTG, because they assume the button hasn't moved yet because I moved it early.

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18h ago
by DisRuptive1

Just quickly read through the case. The dealers who sued wanted to be paid overtime for their tokes, or the money they make dealing tournament tables. So if they were being paid $20 to deal a tournament table, they wanted $30 instead if they were on overtime. They were making $12.50 an hour and were properly (according to the law) being paid overtime on that. There was also

sounds like the dealers should join a Union!

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Ol'Gil avatarOl'Gil
1yr ago

Working graveyard does take a special breed, it is not for everyone. Personally I have always been a night person, in fact in the four plus years I had a "regular 9-5" job I had trouble waking up in the mornings, never could get use to it. I came back into the poker world a few months ago and one of the main reasons was that I walked into full-time dual rate and I was going to end up on graveyard.

Also as far as flooring, once I hit my 90 days in the next few weeks I am basically being "fast-tracked" into a full time floor supervisor role. They opened the spot last year and have only had one person hired for it, who did not make it past his 90 probation period. The reasons I am flooring fulltime is because one, I did not really want to get back into dealing but only did so because it was full-time and graveyard. Two I was burned out when the room I worked in never re-opened after Covid and pretty much anywhere I was going to go was going to be less money. Three I have neck and back injuries that have lingered for many years and really do not have the stamina to keep dealing for much longer.

Its less money than dealing of course but still more than I was making at the jobs I had in-between casino stints but long term picture, I am only a year of floor supervisor experience away from qualifying for a shift manager spot and from what I understand there will likely be two openings sometime by early 2026 with one person retiring and one possibly leaving to go be a room manager a few states away this summer....

NYCNative avatarNYCNative
2yr ago

Fun times at the casino last week!

Some kid sat down at the $1/3 game in Philadelphia Eagles gear. Now, I live in Philly so this doesn't phase me, but it does set the mood for what is to some.

Second hand he gets his whole $200ish stack in on a flop of AT3 rainbow. The runout goes 5-5 and he disgustedly turns over A3 which, now counterfeited, loses to AK.

Immediately he is mumbling and grumbling and rebuys. Still in the same down he gets it all in on the flop against someone who turns over a flopped top set when the runout finishes. He doesn't show but mumbles about how many outs he missed.

He buys into the tournament and I don't see him there, though he was done before it went to the final table so he didn't cash.

I run into him again at another $1/3 game and the second I sit down he is bitching about me loud enough for me to hear. He then commences to fold every hand directly in front of him while in the seven-seat (we are 8-handed) meaning I have to lean all the way over to him to retrieve his cards. It was so obvious and petty that someone else at the table, when he stepped away, was incredulous, saying "He's really doing that to you?"

Whatever. It's a minor inconvenience and it slows me down but whatever.

Not long afterwards I push back into the same table and he is there and he is *still* doing this. Now I am irritated and two can play that game so I start short-arming him, putting his cards in the middle of the table and making him reach for them. After I do this a couple of times he seems to get the hint and starts folding like a normal person.

I was glad it ended there, but I had one more bullet in my chamber if he kept it up, and I was definitely going to fire it if I had to:

You know how when someone new to poker is at the table you will let the dealer pushing in know so they can treat them with kid gloves and not assume they are versed in things? Well, I was going to whisper loud enough that he could hear to the new dealer that the guy in the 7-seat had never played before and to be gentle with him.

I am very confident that, had I done this, he would have protested about how he has played the game before.

At which point I would, with mock sincerity, apologize profusely.

"I'm sorry," I would tell him. "When you went on monkey tilt for two hours because you took a bad beat I assumed you had to be new at this."...

Reducto avatarReducto
2yr ago

Not sure which category this falls under but I found it amusing.

I've heard it's changed, but the WSOP used to be very strict about attendance. You could not request a day off. The only thing you can do is call in that day and take a point. Late even 1 minute is 1/2 point. 4 points and you're done for the year.

I took advantage of one obvious loophole - when I was a few or even 10 minutes late I would just not clock in and sign in saying my badge didn't work. As long as I was there by the time my name was called it was fine.

Another dealer, let's call him Steve, took it further. Steve already had 2 points and needed to take the weekend off for his sister's wedding. He asked the boss but was told there are no exceptions. Come to work or you're done for the year. So Steve used another rule - get caught not taking rake in a cash game and it was an automatic 2 (or 3? I forget) day suspension and final notice. So the day before the wedding he volunteered to deal cash. Each table he went to he announced that for the next 30 minutes there would be no rake and told them why. The players got a kick out of it and tipped like crazy. After his 4th or 5th table Steve finally got pulled out and given papers saying he had to take the weekend off....