Guides
Payout answers for dealers, answer first.
What a place bet pays, how to pay a horn, what a blackjack pays at 6 to 5, how to build a side pot. Each guide gives the answer, then a worked example, then the detail.
Craps
What does a place bet pay in craps?
A craps place bet on the 6 or 8 pays 7 to 6, the 5 or 9 pays 7 to 5, and the 4 or 10 pays 9 to 5. Worked examples, and why bets come in $6 and $5 units.
What do pass line odds and come odds pay in craps?
Odds behind the pass line or on a come bet pay true odds: 2 to 1 on the 4 or 10, 3 to 2 on the 5 or 9, 6 to 5 on the 6 or 8. Worked examples.
How do you pay a horn bet and a horn high bet?
A horn bet is four equal bets on 2, 3, 11 and 12, paid net of the three losing units. Worked examples for horn and horn high, with the shortcut.
What do the one-roll prop bets and the hardways pay in craps?
Any seven, any craps, 2, 3, 11, 12, C & E, hops and the hardways: what each one-roll prop and hardway pays in craps, with worked $5 examples.
How do you pay a press in craps, and what order does the base work in?
How a craps base dealer pays a press, half press, same bet, take me down, and off and on, plus the take, pay, move, pay order, with worked examples.
How do craps dealers handle come bets, odds working or off, and stick calls?
What a craps come bet and its odds do on every roll, why come odds are off on the come-out, and how the stick calls a roll for the base dealers.
Table Games
What does a blackjack pay at 3 to 2 and at 6 to 5?
A blackjack at 3 to 2 pays $15 on a $10 bet; at 6 to 5 it pays $12. Payouts at common bet sizes, odd bets and what counts as a blackjack.
What a blackjack dealer audition tests: pay order and math
What a blackjack dealer audition tests: the order of the round, the peek and insurance, pay order from third base to first, and 3 to 2 math on odd bets.
How do you set a Pai Gow Poker hand and rank Pai Gow Tiles?
How a dealer sets seven cards by the Pai Gow Poker house way, settles both hands, pays Fortune and Envy, and ranks the 16 Pai Gow Tiles pairs.
How do you settle Ultimate Texas Hold’em and Three Card Poker?
Dealer qualifying hands, settle order and the Blind, Trips, Ante Bonus and Pair Plus pay tables for Ultimate Texas Hold’em and Three Card Poker.
Poker
How do you build a side pot in poker?
How a poker dealer builds main and side pots: match the shortest all-in first, return an uncalled bet, and award the last side pot before the main pot.
How do you count a poker pot, take the rake and cut change?
How a cash-game poker dealer counts a pot, takes the rake (a percentage with a cap) or the drop, and cuts change in the fewest chips. Worked examples.
How do you read an Omaha Hi-Lo low and find the bring-in in Stud and Razz?
How a poker dealer reads an Omaha Hi-Lo eight-or-better low and finds the bring-in in 7-Card Stud, Stud Hi-Lo and Razz, plus first to act and odd chips.
Buying for a room or school
What to ask a casino dealer training vendor
Seven questions for a training director to ask any casino dealer training vendor: checkout, game coverage, house rules, proctored tests and TPPP rules.