{"id":1609,"date":"2016-02-14T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondnumbers.lvablog.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:00:35","slug":"casino-mis-management-time-wasters-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/casino-mis-management-time-wasters-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino (Mis-)Management: Time Wasters #1-3"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can’t even cover all the ways casinos waste time in one post, so we’ll just look at three of them that relate to card handling. Now, if you’re in charge of cleaning up the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, do you send the custodians with their mops and vacuums in the middle of the trading day? Probably not. If you work at a tech company and need to back-up the computer system daily, do you run that process during the middle of the day? Probably not. When do you retouch the greens at Augusta National?<\/p>\n

It’s simple, you don’t interrupt your core process in order to do maintenance. Yet, that is what the casinos do thousands of times a day the world over. A game is in progress, people are betting, people are losing, and then the boss comes over to change the cards [#1]! Why would you interrupt a live game to change cards in the slowest, most inefficient manner possible? Their probable answer: “Because we’ve always done it that way.” Sound logic.<\/p>\n

If gaming regulations require new cards to be exhibited to players, or if you think players like to see, then all the casino needs to do is have a specially designated card-prep table in the pit, where a dealer does nothing but check new decks, shuffle them, and prepare to distribute them to the tables that need them. When a table needs new cards, security can bring them from the card-prep table to the target table in a plastic box just like a fill of chips.<\/p>\n

[#2] What happens if you interrupt the game, and then the players leave, or they leave for other reasons? Most casinos will then take the cards out of the shoe or machine, fan them out on the layout in a pretty pattern (like B for Be au Riv age), then wait for new players before they shuffle up and prepare to deal. My god, have these people ever gone gambling?! Who wants to wait for that? Does a B look good on the layout? I’ll tell you what looks good: a full shoe, ready to deal, with one burn card sitting in the discard rack.<\/p>\n

On top of that, you invite lazy dealers to employ The Stare or The Fake Distraction. Next time you visit Vegas, walk by some of the deadspread tables. Notice whether the dealer looks away, hoping you’ll then keep walking, or stares directly at you in a way to intimidate you enough to keep walking. The guy is lazy and doesn’t want to deal, and having the cards deadspread, not ready to go, gives him just enough of a barrier to induce you to keep steppin’.<\/p>\n

[#3] If you’re playing a pitch game, what happens when a new dealer comes to the table? The outgoing dealer drops the deck on the table, and then fans them out. How pretty. They don’t do that on shoe games, so why they do it on pitch games is beyond me. There is no security risk from having the outgoing dealer pass the deck off to the new dealer, who can continue dealing. There are procedures to secure the handoff, and play can continue without even burning a card. The Pa lms at one time instituted this handoff, and there are other casinos that have tried it, but most do not.<\/p>\n

If anyone out there can defend any of these three time wasters, feel free to comment!<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"youtube\"<\/a>\"instagram\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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