How do you become a table dealer in Vegas?

Question

I'm interested in working at a casino and being one of their card dealers at a blackjack or poker table. How do you go about applying and what school would they send you to?

Answer 1

In Vegas you'll have to go to a table games training course.  They run around $1,500 per game I believe.   Not too bad actually.  If you were to go to college for training in a job you'd be paying 10 times that much per year.  Best to learn Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, and Baccarat.

Answer 2

On rare occasions we have taught employees who were working in other departments how to deal 21.  This is hardly ever done anymore.  The standard method today is for you, the student, to pay for a course at a dealer's school.  There are several in the Las Vegas area and they will all give you a barely adequate training in 21, roulette, craps, baccarat, pai gow poker, poker or other games.  They are expensive.  

I recommend instead that you go to the community college and take a one-month course for a much lower price.

The table games (pit games) and poker are different departments with a separate staff of dealers.  You should choose to be one or the other.  Learn multiple games.  A one-game dealer has a hard time finding work. Your first job will be a training one in a small, low-money casino.  After a few months you will have enough skills to move on to a second-level job.  

Some people learn to deal at casinos in other states before coming to Nevada.  They often get their training for free as a part of their employment package.

Answer 3

They do not send you to dealer school. You must get certified to a dealer school before casinos will consider you for employment. Crescent School of Gaming is an example of a gaming school you could go to. Google them for more information.

Answer 4

you must go to a gaming school.

Answer 5

I live and work as a poker dealer in las Vegas and i can tell you that right now it is hard to find work in a casino since the economy is so bad the first thing people cut out of there budget is trips to Vegas. Now that being said there is still work to be had here. Most casinos want you to go to dealer school and there are many of them out there, and they can run from a few hundred dollars to 1000 bucks depending on what you want to learn to deal. I myself went to the casino gaming school of Nevada, it is one of the best out there. You can go to www.learn2deal.com and see for yourself. Poker is 800.00 and any other 2 games are 500.00 to learn. When you get done with school you go for an audition, this means you deal a live game for the floor manager, and if he likes you they will put you on the extra board. This means part time on call for the most part, you could get lucky and get on full time, but most dealers start out as a brush in a break in house. A break in house is a casino that hires new dealers, and after a few years in a break in house you can go to better places and make more money, in casinos that have more action.