rotating dealers

joecash · #1 07-20-2005, 10:57 PM

why do dealers rotate from table to table instead of staying at one table for a couple hours? is this to keep the players from requesting dealer changes?

Bremen · #2 07-20-2005, 11:01 PM

Would you want to deal 1-3 stud all night? Be lucky to get $10 in tips an hour.

boscoboy · #3 07-20-2005, 11:19 PM

helps prevent dealer player collusion

joecash · #4 07-21-2005, 02:07 AM

I thought of collusion too.

I hate it becasue it wastes too much time having the new dealer setting up so often.

The Goober · #5 07-21-2005, 04:37 AM

I think they do it b/c its important that the dealers get enough breaks, or its inveitable that someone's going to [censored] up something. By rotating the dealers, they get a short break after each down, and a periodic one down break.

Bulldog · #6 07-21-2005, 08:59 AM

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By rotating the dealers, they get a short break after each down

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In the 15-second walk from table 18 to table 22?

The correct answer is to prevent collusion, and as a bonus, to prevent requests for dealer changes.

IceKing · #7 07-21-2005, 09:47 AM

The correct answer is the breaks. This way dealers stay sharper, and they dont get bored so easily. Dealing some tightass-passive-foldem many hours would be very frustrating.

belloc · #8 07-21-2005, 11:51 AM

This can't be the correct answer, or at least the one that will satisfy the OP. Dealers will often be pushed through several low limit holdem tables in a row before they have a break. The OP is asking why they can't just stay at one table for their whole three-hour shift instead of dealing three tables for an hour each. He complains that each dealer change costs a couple of hands of playing time.

W. Deranged · #9 07-21-2005, 11:59 AM

The formal answer I think is the collusion one.

I think there's also a marketing component. Lots of players think that who is dealing has a lot to do with what kinds of cards they get. Rotating the dealers keeps them playing and interested. Think of it like slot-machine reels.

RacersEdge · #10 07-21-2005, 12:20 PM

I think it's an operational thing. It's not like a construction crew where 10 people can take a break at the same time. Dealers can only take breaks one or two at a time, so certain tables will be labeled break tables meaning the next thing you do after being pushed of that table is to take a 30 minute break. After the break is over, the dealer comes back into the rotation. So the dealing time at a table needs to be the same as the break time - usually 30 minutes.