Hey Gang!
I finally crawled out of bed after yet another long night at work, and decided to make an update while watching this excellent George Mason/UConn game. I picked UConn to win the whole thing, but since my bracket is so farked up now with no hope of competing for any of the cash prizes, I'm in full-on root-for-the-underdog mode.
Friday night at work was much better than Thursday. I was scheduled in the dice pit, but when I got there, they had about 18 dice dealers scheduled for four tables, so being at the bottom of the list, I got sent back to the blackjack pit for the evening. I spent most of the night there pitching cards until around 1am when they started closing tables and then got to relax for the last three hours of the shift dealing Pai Gow and 3-Card Poker. Since I was on such easygoing games, I made it the entire eight-hour shift, but the other three guys who were on the dice table from hell with me the night before all took early outs, still trying to recover. It was all worth it in the end, as every night this week has been a $200 night for tokes.
I woke up yesterday and had a message or two from my niece Jennifer. Her and her hubby Chad were in town for a quick weekend getaway, so I drove down to Treasure Island to meet them for lunch at Kahunaville. I didn't get the monster Asian chicken salad this time around, instead I opted for the Cuban sandwich which was just fantastic. I couldn't believe how good it was. Still trying to recover the system from last week, I just went with a Coke--no fruity concoctions this time around.
We had a great, although brief, visit, and I even taught Jen how to play a little Pai Gow after lunch. She won $35 bucks in about twenty minutes and took her winnings and ran. Still a bit tired, and not gambing either, I took off after that and got a quick nap in before heading back to the casino.
I wasn't scheduled to deal dice last night, but when I got back to work and checked the roadmap, I didn't have a table, just a note saying "Mikey B to Dice". Rebalancing the universe from the other crappy night, we had the best dice table ever. First of all, we opened the table, instead of tapping out an earlier crew on an already-full game. And none of the regular fleas that we enjoy so much came over to play.
The table started pretty cold, so we didn't have many players for the first couple of hours, which made it nice and relaxing. Finally a gal came over and waved at me, signalling that she'd be joining me in just a minute. The other guys were like "Hey, is that your girlfriend or something?", but although I recognized her, I couldn't immediately place her or remember her name. Then her husband showed up and I remembered--they come in a couple times a month and play at my blackjack table, and are great tippers when they start winning.
Well, since we had no players and the table was cold, our toke box was empty when they showed up. I got them to play at my end of the table, and luckily they started making money. Once they got a few bucks, they set the example for everyone else and started making a lot of dealer bets. Everyone else got with the program and we all started making money. Lots of money.
They ended up sticking around until around 3:15 or so, and we filled the toke box up with green and red checques. And my brotha turned his $60 buy-in into around $700 and change. Even the boxman was impressed, telling me Good job bringing in the Georges! ('George' is old-school dealer slang for 'Big Tipper').
Overall, a pretty good night--we had fun players, a lot of laughs, and made a pile of money in tokes. You can't ask for a better night than that at the dice table.
Before I left this morning, they had tonight's roadmap posted, and I saw that tonight I'm dealing that new World Poker Tour all-in holdem game, Pai Gow, and 3-Card poker. It should be a nice relaxing Sunday night behind the tables for me.
Mikey
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