World Series Of Poker Dealer Pay

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Date: February 21, 2019Written By: Heather FerrisCollaborated With: 888 Poker
The World Series of Poker is the most well-known gambling tournament around the world, hosting a multitude of events in Europe, Australia, Canada and France. However, its biggest event is in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Every year, Caesars Entertainment hires an impressive amount of temporary poker dealers to help deal at this event. The base pay is $8.²⁵ per hour and the dealers keep their own tips. Tokes average around $10 to $18 a down, depending on the number of players and different buy-ins and a down lasts approximately 30 minutes. If being a World Series of Poker dealer sounds like an ideal job, you’ve hit the jackpot. In this article, we’ll discuss all of the information you need to know in order to be a WSOP dealer.
The World Series of Poker is a temporary job that lasts for 7 weeks; from late May to July. People can start applying for a position in January. In order to apply for the position, you must meet certain requirements set out by the casino. These requirements include having prior poker dealing experience, or have completed a poker dealing trade school course in order to get hired. If you’ve never dealt poker and you want to know how to become a poker dealer, there are several different articles and resources out there that can help you, such as: Vegas Aces Poker Flash Cards, Poker Instruction Manual, Matt with 888Poker, and Marc with TruePokerDealer. The dealer must be able to deal and run all flop, draw and seven card tournament games in limit, no-limit and pot-limit formats. Then there’s the typical dealer-specific requirements such as being friendly, outgoing, with good customer service skills and a natural team player. Must be neat, clean and have a professional appearance and practices good hygiene. The applicant must be 21 years of age or older and have a Nevada Gaming License in order to qualify. The dealer must have good math skills when it comes to calculating pots or rakes. They must be able to respond calmly and handle distressed guests. The dealer must be able to work in a fast paced environment and be responsive to visual and auditory cues. They must be able to sit or stand for long periods of time and memorize all game rules, policies and procedures given to them.
Submit your application online to Caesar’s Entertainment either directly, or by completing a search. The deadline for application submission is April 15. Don’t forget to fill out your questionnaire as part of the application process. It must be completed to be considered for hire. Auditions are by invitation only. If the dealer has meet all of the requirements a staff member from the World Series of poker will contact you and invite you to schedule an appointment for an audition. Dealers must successfully pass their audition if they wish to be hired. During the audition, dealers will be required to answer questions based on the Dealer’s Reference Guide, ensuring that the candidate read the material. Then they’ll be auditioned on four poker games. Every dealer will deal No-Limit Texas Holdem and the three other games will be picked randomly from the list provided:

• Seven Card Razz
• Seven Card Stud
• Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split (8 or Better)
• Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split (Regular)
• No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
• No Limit 5 Card Draw High
• Limit Badugi-Baducy-Badacy
• Limit Texas Hold-Em
• Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
• Limit Ace to 5 Triple Draw Lowball
• Limit Omaha [High Only]
• Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split (8 or Better)
• Pot-Limit Big O Hi-Low Split (8 or Better)
• Pot-Limit Texas Hold’ Em
• Pot-Limit Omaha
• Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split (8 or Better)

After the dealer has been hired, they’ll discuss the schedule since schedule preferences are not guaranteed. Dealers are expected to work 40 hours or more per week. Normally dealers work more than 8 hours a day and up to 6 days a week. Overtime and extended schedules are common due to the nature of this event. The World Series of Poker is a 24 hour tournament and all shifts need to be filled. New WSOP dealers will receive their schedule on the day of orientation, which is mandatory and held on a Sunday, 3 days before the tournament starts. If you wish to return on a yearly basis, you must fill out a new application every time, however if you successfully completed at least one full year of employment as a WSOP deal in the past 3 years, then you’re not required to pass a second audition. Auditions are only required for people who hasn’t worked for the World Series of Poker organization since 2016. If you’re a WSOP dealer in a different location other than Las Vegas, then you may be eligible for a phone audition.

For 2020, the World Series of Poker will be made up of 85 bracelet events, 31 on WSOP.com and 54 on GG Poker. The events are in tournament format, and every player in a given tournament starts.

Why would you want to become a poker dealer?

There are a few reasons that poker players, in general, decide to become poker dealers. One of those reasons, the most obvious reason, is that dealing poker is very profitable – much more profitable than most people realise.

Think of it like this, it’s pretty much good practice to toss the dealer a buck every time you win a hand right? Not everyone does it, but most of us do, some toss more especially the travellers and other people that don’t play the game on a regular basis.

How much do poker dealers earn?

For right now, let’s go with that, an average of $1 per hand in tips. We won’t even take into consideration tourists and other big tipping games. Now we’ll consider another fact about dealing poker, the fact that poker dealers are expected to deal an average of 30 hands per hour minimum.

So, assuming an average of $1 tip per hand, 30 hands per hour means poker dealers are making about $30 an hour in tips plus very small paychecks they are taking from the casino.

In Oregon, for instance, at Chinook Winds Casino poker dealers are paid $8.80-$9.48 plus tips. Comparatively, Table Mountain Casino in California pays new dealers $8 plus tips. Dealers in Oregon must pass an audition at the casino as well as undergo an extensive background investigation, pass a drug test and receive a licence from the Gambling Commission.

There are lots of openings for tournament dealers; however, cash game dealer positions are actually pretty hard to come by.

How do I become a certified poker dealer?

The most common way to become a certified poker dealer is to take a class on dealing poker. The length of poker dealing classes varies from as little as two weeks to as many eight weeks. The price of the classes varies almost as much as the length required in them.

The ease of finding a class and being able to afford that class largely depends on where you’re located. For instance, in Oregon at Chinook Winds Casino, classes are offered free during the slower months in effort to gear up for busier summer events.

Classes at Chinook Winds Casino are usually a couple of weeks long with as much follow up as is required for a new dealer to pass an audition. Caesars in Las Vegas also offers free poker dealer classes when they’re gearing up for the World Series of Poker season. These classes are three weeks long, are followed up by auditions, background checks and licensing by the Nevada Gaming Commission.

The average price to learn any new casino game seems to range from these free classes, that aren’t offered regularly, on up to about $1500 with a guaranteed job placement after you’ve graduated at the larger more expensive schools. It’s been said that the best dealer schools teach new dealers how to deal multiple games including Chinese Poker.

If you are curious what sort of things you might learn at a professional Holdem Poker dealer school check out videos on YouTube for learning to deal casino poker.

Dealing these major tournament events offers these new dealers a venue in which they can hone their skills, become ready to pass stricter auditions working in places such as Atlantic City, Las Vegas or aboard poker cruise ships.

Obtaining your State Dealers Licence

Once you’ve gotten the necessary training, and a position at a casino, you’ll need to become licenced by the state where you’re to be employed. This process generally involves proving your citizenship via the same documents employee’s use to prove their right to work legally within the United States and passing a criminal background investigation.

The background investigation usually requires that the applicant submit to fingerprinting and submit a photograph of themselves with their application. Applications then need to be renewed every 3-5 years.

Breaking into the Industry

If you’re looking to become a licenced dealer, at an actual casino, you’ll need experience dealing professionally. It’s the same catch 22 the world has dealt with when looking for employment for decades, you have to have experience to get it.

How Much Do World Series Of Poker Dealers Make

The best way to break into the field without actual live game dealing experience is during large tournament events. When casinos hold monthly, quarterly or annual large events they tend to be very short-staffed so this is a great time for a trained, yet under experienced dealer, to pick up some extra dealing time and grab some experience to put on the their C.V.

The biggest tip you can take advantage of is to learn every game you can whenever you get the chance. Whether it’s poker, or another casino game, the more games you can list on your job applications the more appealing you will be to the casinos you send your C.V. to.

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Remember, as you hear about free classes like the one’s held occasionally at casinos like Caesars, that 100’s of dealers before you have paid a lot of money for these classes to get their position within the casino. You may have to pay for other classes in the future so, snap up these free opportunities whenever and wherever possible!