One of the questions they asked me during my interview was, "How do you feel about taking money from little, old ladies?" My answer at the time was something along the lines of them paying for entertainment, and it's like paying $15 to see a movie, you're setting aside money for a period of entertainment, and so the money they're betting is the money they've put aside for that night's entertainment. To be honest, now that I think about it, it really sounds like a load of BS, but I somehow managed to get the job, so it can't have been that bad! Anyway, things have changed now that I'm actually on the gaming floor and not just taking fake money from my fellow roulette-dealers-in-training, and if I were to answer that question again, my answer would definitely be different. In all honesty, sometimes it's not so hard taking money, because a lot of the people who gamble at my table are something that starts with A and rhymes with "grass hole". Now that I've been there for a couple of months, I'm starting to recognise the different types of players.
The Zero Gamers
These are the ambulance chasers of roulette. Typically the Asian betters, they can spot a zero from halfway across the casino, and run madly towards the table, not caring about who they knock along the way. They know every single dealer in the casino, and love the "lumpies" (new dealers). The idea is that lumpies aren't able to control their spin very well, and so they will usually spin in the same area of the wheel. Since zero really stands out, and there are standard bets for covering the numbers around zero ("Grand series"/Voisins du zero, or the Zero Game). These are the worst, and when I start to see numbers from the grand series at my table, I die a little inside, because I know it won't be long before my table is surrounded by people shoving bets on as fast as possible. I hate this group the most, because they treat me like some kind of robot, barking thier call bets at me, and getting really frustrated when I'm busy doing other things for the other players and not spinning the ball for them.
Drunks/Stoners
While we're not allowed to let drunk people bet, there are people who are not drunk enough to kick out, and so we have to keep dealing for them until they get drunk enough to kick out, or leave. I don't know what it is about drunk/stoned people, but they seem to have the most luck out of everyone. They usually have no clue how to play roulette, and start of betting both red and black (a number can either be one of red, black or green(zero)). Then they will decide to place chips on a few numbers, and for a reason I'll never understand (maybe God hates me), the ball will always manage to land on one of those numbers. The people themselves are usually cool, and I don't mind dealing to them, but once they win, they usually make lots of noise, and this attracts more people to my table, which means more work for me. =(
Noobs
These are the most fun to deal to, because they're usually the nicest people, but that also means they're the hardest people to take money from. There was this one guy who was at my table on my second shift who looked so much like Stringbeans that I almost wanted to give him his money back. =( The best thing about them is they're usually really polite, and they're more interested in talking to you than playing roulette, so they don't treat you like a robot.
Theory-Crafters
These are the people who have read about some sort of "How to Win at Roulette" thing, and think that roulette is the easiest game to win money from. Funnily enough, I think these are the people who keep the casino in business, because they seem to lose the most money. So advice from the wise - don't just read about some fad betting scheme, think about it first before chucking $300 on a table! The worst theory-crafters are the ones who are wannabe "Zero Gamers" but don't seem to understand the concept that if you're going to play the zero game, you should at least find a table where the dealer is spinning in that section. Also in this group, I stick the people who are Martingale betters or two dozen/column betters, which I've already ranted about.
The Jerks/Rigged Wheel Complainers
I'm not quite sure about the reasoning for this, but my theory is that these are the people who go around and bet on the numbers nobody else has covered because they like being the only winner at the table and like to gloat to all the people who lost all of their chips. My other theory is they think the wheel is rigged somehow, and someone is watching the table trying to find the number that will pay the least amount of money, and make the ball fall on that number somehow. I've had so many people ask me if there's a button I can press to stop the ball, or if there is someone watching from a camera controlling the wheel (no to both, although there are the new "slingshot" wheels where you can press a button to spin the ball, and there are people watching from camera, but that's only for security reasons).
Gidon
He likes to play with the pink chips and bet on the number 13.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know how long I can keep doing this. A couple of days ago, I had a man lose quite a lot of money on my table, and when he walked away, I started to wonder if maybe he had reached the point where he was going to kill himself over his gambling losses. In the back of my head, I know that even if I wasn't there, he'd just be throwing his money away to some other dealer, but at the same time I don't want to be the person taking the money. Although, I do meet many interesting people at work, and almost everyone I work with is really nice.
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