Very focused on Dealers School

I know I know I know, I have let my blog go to long without updating. The very rare occasions that I get to chat with deal, this is the first thing he mentions. Even my daughter was wondering why I hadn’t updated as well. Hell I didn’t even know that she visits my blog regularly. Love you Brandy….lol.

At any rate I had a very exciting change of events to share so I figured I would force myself to spend a few minutes to share it here. Joe Dirt and the Puppy (Tinkerbelle) have finally come to terms with each other. Anyone reading this couldn’t possibly know how much this means to Suz and I. We were getting so close to giving jd away so that he could have a better life then what he has been having the last four months or so. Living in the garage is not what I would consider a happy life for a dog.

It all started a week or so ago with him actually tolerating her jumping in his face. He started off slow at first allowing only about ten or fifteen minutes of this aggravation before retreating back into the garage. Each day he gave her an even greater amount of time until which time the newness sort of wore off for Tinkerbelle as she was able to focus on other things rather then continually jumping in his face. After a few days he pretty much hung out the majority of the day with the family again. After observing his tolerance we decided to allow him to set his own limits with her where as from time to time he is just not in the mood or becomes dominant over dog treats which for the most part has little effect on her as she seems to be pretty much fearless. It usually only takes a stern voice from me to calm him down to the point that he doesn’t want to progress to a full on attack which is cool.

My last hope for the two of them was her going into heat which I figured would force him to choose pheromones over aggression. I actually pulled a loose tooth out of her mouth a week or two ago so I knew that if she was going to have a six month cycle she was getting close to ripening up. Thank god they sorted things out before she started smelling up the place and causing his horny behavior to kick in as there is nothing worse then a dude who is only interested in sex and not willing to build some kind of relationship first. We had jd fixed in his first year so there is no pressure for them to become family committed but he still has his humpy pillow (yea I know pretty sick isn’t it) that he sneaks off with on occasion and pounds the hell out of it resulting in…well you get the idea.

On another note, I will be taking my Poker Audition this week. To pass the audition I have to deal Texas Holdem $3/$6 limit, Omaha high/low, and Seven Card Stud, accurately manage multiple side pots in all three, ensure that the action is fast paced and protected at all times, calculate and retrieve the appropriate rake in a very discreet manner, remain diligent at all times to the misuse of angle shots, and to perform my responsibilities in a always friendly but quite and professionally efficient manner. I should be capable of dealing approximately 30 plus hands per hour of Texas Holdem, 20 plus per hour of Omaha, and somewhere around 16 plus an hour of 7 stud, which btw is not played in California what so ever. The only time I would ever be required to deal 7 card stud would be while working in Nevada or dealing in tournaments like the WSOP. Our school has 7 individuals who are still in Vegas dealing in this years WSOP. Their 6 to 7 week gig is supposed to gross each of them somewhere around 13K which I consider to be a pretty hardy reward when considering how up close and personal they are to some of the greatest poker players of all time

At any rate next week I begin the process of seeking employment. As of now the opportunities are not jumping out at me at all. I am going to explore all of my juice connections at first of which if none of them tend to expose some potential I will probably begin to start second guessing my decision to take this path and add a little depression to my already stressed out life. There is a new casino opening up at the end of the year which I think will pretty much pan out should I be forced to wait that long. A much more attractive opportunity is a new card room that is opening soon within miles of my house but they are experiencing some licensing issues at the moment so who knows how long that could take to pan out. July has shown to be the slowest month of the year for getting gigs dealing at parties that the colleges casino events division books. There is little money to be made dealing parties if your client does not tip but I have made upwards of $40 an hour at a few of them and gained much needed experience running live games.

Any way, I have typed my butt into being late for school now so I gotta wrap this up. I am sure once I get a real dealing job I will be using this blog to share some live game stories of which could very well be some useful information for any live game players. I found all of the angle shots to be very interesting in nature. If you do not know what they are, they are techniques used by players to deceive other players of which push the rules to the otter edges of acceptability. Players that have been deceived by an angle shots are typically the only ones who feel that the behavior is cheating. Once they have been shot they tend to employ these techniques themselves and consider them to basically fall into the category of skill and experience. My job as a dealer is to prevent them from being used in the wrong way which typically results from in an inexperienced user to commit an illegal act. The serious anger that sometimes results from being shot an angle is by far a major contributor to physical confrontations at most poker tables. For the most part, what fun is there if you can’t get a ring side seat to a fisty cuff rumble every now and then….lol.

jd