Dealer Salary

SpiderMnkE · #1 07-29-2004, 12:19 PM

How much do poker dealers make. And is there a cardroom that is the place to be for a dealer.

I have a friend dealing at the shoe who is making $120 a day just in tips. I didn't know dealers made that much. Not that it is a ton or anything... but typically how much are you guys pulling in dealing cards?

Inthacup · #2 07-29-2004, 12:51 PM

I've heard $30-50/hr with tips.

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SpiderMnkE · #3 07-29-2004, 01:33 PM

That is incredible... that is more that the avg college graduate!!

Go Poker!!

Also... that seems to be more than the avg "pro" makes. So why not deal half the time if you aren't makin the big bucks as a pro.

Also.. it seems easy to become a dealer... a friend of mine went to vegas for the summer and picked up a job as a dealer... with 0 experience.

Homer · #4 07-29-2004, 01:39 PM

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I've heard $30-50/hr with tips.

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Are you kidding? I have never heard of it being so high. That is $60-100K/yr!

-- Homer

Inthacup · #5 07-29-2004, 01:46 PM

that seems to be more than the avg "pro" makes.

Maybe for live 'pros' playing 15-30 or lower. Most anyone who is of pro caliber can make $100+/hr fairly easily online.

47outs · #6 07-29-2004, 01:47 PM

Ya, $60,000 - $100,000 is ball park. $100,000 is a little extreme though.

I don't think internet dealers make quite that much.
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Thythe · #7 07-29-2004, 02:06 PM

It sounds insanely high. What is the training process/how difficult is it to become a dealer? Why aren't a lot of Walmart/fast food workers etc becoming dealers instead if it's this high?

Homer · #8 07-29-2004, 02:13 PM

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It sounds insanely high. What is the training process/how difficult is it to become a dealer? Why aren't a lot of Walmart/fast food workers etc becoming dealers instead if it's this high?

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That's what I was thinking.

Dealers probably get out about 60,000 hands/yr (2000 hr * 30 hands/hr), so to make $60K/yr they'd have to receive an average of a $1 tip/hand. I imagine most dealers don't receive this much. If I had to guess, I'd say $32-36K/yr is standard, not including base salary ($2/hr or something?). With that, it would be around $36-40K/yr.

Any former/current dealers here?

-- Homer

sumdumguy · #9 07-29-2004, 02:28 PM

I've both propped and managed a B&M cardroom (actually a very short stint). Does that count?

Quite a few years ago, I used to prop in this place where they'd split two tables between 3 dealers. It basically went 20mins at A, 20mins at B, then 20mins on break. Basically, each dealer dealt about 20 hands in the hour.

The average tip per hand was just under $2. So.. they were each being tipped $30 to $40 an hour on average with 20 minutes of break time in a working hour. That's between $60 and $80 K a year. Not all cardrooms are so lucrative.. this one was pretty exceptional.

We hear all the time, "we work on tips." from tons of people in the service industry. I do feel sympathy for some, but the flip side is that there are sectors of the industry where some of these poor workers really do make more than the typical college graduate.

SpiderMnkE · #10 07-29-2004, 02:40 PM

I don't doubt what you are saying about their salaries... my friend is dealing at a 1 2 NL game downtown and making 120 a day in tips... not including his MINIMUM WAGE!! base pay. This is better than the $2.13 or whatever waitresses get. So add another 40 bux to that and he's making $160 a day. He isn't dealing high limits or anything either. What about the dealers in the high limit section of the Bellagio.. what are they pulling in?