A croupier's roulette experiences E-Book

Toni Pichler

• Herausgeber: novum publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 42

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

What exactly does a croupier do in a casino? Toni Pichler should know. He has worked at the roulette table in a casino for several decades and has experienced a multitude of entertaining, bizarre and unpredictable situations. How and why does one become a croupier? For Toni, the advantage is obvious: money, and lots of it. He is particularly keen on an expensive car brand and wants to have it in his garage soon. He wants to fulfill this dream by working in a casino. But Toni didn't expect the many bizarre events that await him in the "gambling den". The promise of easy money attracts a colorful cast of characters, leading them to engage in ludicrous ventures. And yet, in the end, it's almost always the house that wins...

Leseprobe

Foreword

I have never been active in literature. Perhaps that was just as well. The idea of becoming a "writer" came to me from a former school friend with whom I used to sit on the same bench many years ago.

So if the following efforts to produce a small booklet go down the proverbial drain, you have to blame him, it's "cause and effect".

The persons mentioned in this work and the associated actions are not fictitious and largely correspond to the facts.

Why does a person choose the professionthe profession of croupier?

There are various reasons for this: Firstly, at the time I started working in the casino, I was earning five to six times as much as a "normal employee". As a trained bank clerk, you went home with around 350 DM net. Even people with a modest knowledge of mathematics could not fail to notice that the croupier was in a relatively high salary bracket. On the other hand, no excessively high demands are placed on mental abilities. I had colleagues who made desperate efforts to climb at least the first two rungs on the ladder of intelligence, and yet they were successful in the job! So a mastermind is not an important requirement!

A well-groomed appearance and good manners towards guests and colleagues are essential. It is also very helpful to have a good memory for numbers, faces and voices.

However, the most decisive characteristic of a good croupier is his manual dexterity in handling the tools of his trade: the chips and the rateau. Jetons are plastic tokens worth between five and five thousand euros; they can be purchased for cash at the casino cash desk or directly at the gaming table. A rateau ("rake") is a long-handled tool used by the croupier, which has a kind of "shovel" at the end. He uses it to distribute the chips on the gaming table and to collect the losing chips from the lucky players after a game has ended. Anyone who has ever been to a casino and watched a good croupier at work knows what I'm talking about. The smooth process of handling tokens safely and effectively requires the croupier to have a dry hand through which the chips glide.

The mental material for mastering the work consists largely of numbers and their combinations, which can be learned in a relatively short time and soon become routine.

The "inevitable dream job"

I live in a town on Lake Tegernsee, which has been very busy since I was a child. At weekends in particular, endless caravans of weekenders in their more or less posh cars roll through the main road that leads from Gmund towards Lake Achensee. When driving home on Sunday afternoon at the latest, drivers need very good nerves, because in good weather conditions they will inevitably end up in a lengthy traffic jam towards Munich caused by the return journey! It was this traffic jam in particular that I had in mind!

I was perhaps seven or eight years old and knew pretty much every car brand that moved on four (or even three) wheels. However, the only car that seemed interesting to me was the one that came from Swabia and was inevitably called "Porsche". My little boy's brain was irrevocably imprinted with the desire to own such a speedster one day!

So the years went by, I started my apprenticeship as a banker, became a bank clerk and didn't get one step closer to my automotive goal, because the financial means needed to buy and, above all, maintain a car would no longer be available to me in my chosen profession in this life.

But all of a sudden I discovered a way to get rid of this dilemma! There were quite a number of people who were employed at the Bad Wiessee casino and who called themselves "croupiers". Their salaries were regularly transferred to them and when I looked at the astronomical amounts I realized that I should no longer work as a bank clerk.

A short time later, I completed a three-month course and then the "PORSCHE company" could begin!

A major risk that this career change represented for me was the fact that my previous employer explained it to me as follows: "My dear Mr. P.," my boss said to me. "Think carefully about this step, because if you regret your decision sooner or later, despite the enormous salary you will receive, there will be no way of getting you back into our ranks."

I considered this warning carefully and then came to the conclusion: "Therefore, see if you can find something more lucrative by tying yourself to the bank." A short time later, Spielbank Bad W. was my new employer.