Most of the last two weeks found me signing the EO/PLAY list. For those of you that aren’t familair with the term, when there are too many dealers for games spread, dealers can play on shift until they are needed in the line-up. It’s a draw by day of the week as far as who gets to play and who will deal…definitely NOT mandatory. The EO is short for early out. That’s also done by day of the week. While I did win playing poker, I did not win what I would have made if I’d dealt my shifts…my fun and goofy ‘poker playing on shift’ run is over…back to the Dealer’s Box. I’m OK with that. Sometimes it’s easier to deal than it is to play and put up with some of the dealers.

Now you’re wondering how I could even make that statement since I am a dealer…it’s quite easy. Right is right and wrong is wrong. At this moment, I choose not to mention their names, some of them are tournament dealers and I really don’t know them but a few are our regular room dealers and I don’t want the torment since I have to work with them everyday.

Two dealers allowed a person to take their bet back after there was action behind them.

The following dealer is one of them that allowed the player to take his money back and she makes more noise, while she’s dealing, than a building being imploded. The dust from the building hangs in the air forever and she seems to also.

She stomp shuffles the deck, the bets coming in, the players and the action. And she thinks she’s damn cute. She turned the River card face down (but another one of our dealers did that also) when everyone was hanging in the air waiting to see it. She smiled like it was a magic act and she was in control of the card…maybe even would make it disappear. UGH!!! She allowed a guy to pull a $100 bill from under his stack and hand it to his wife playing next to him. When a dealer behind her screamed, “SEAT OPEN TABLE 16.” She screamed, “JUST FILL IT YOURSELF, STEVE…no one gonna listen to you anyway.” She informed the table that the Brush Person on shift that day was one of the worst we’d ever had…mostly she said it to me but it went out to everyone. She had no idea who won the pot in one hand because she was busy watching everyone else and being cute.

Shit like this drives me crazy. I totally understand why a lot of players hate dealers and look down on them. I also understand that, in all professions, there is always going to be someone, someplace that sucks at their job and they are never going to improve or even try to. That still doesn’t mean I have to like it. It’s one of the reasons I don’t play for months at a time. I can’t stand to tip them (and I’m expected to tip more because I work there) for doing a job ‘poorly’ done and listen to and watch them while they’re doing it.