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Casinos can open and close rapidly depending on the economy. Atlantic City just closed one of their casinos, and something like 1500 applicants tried for 50 positions in another casino.
Still, if you can get in, the job is easy, fast or slow paced (swing shift or day/grave shift, respectively), relatively easy on the body and enjoyable, so long as you have a somewhat thick skin. Plus, we've got dealers pushing 90, still dealing by choice! They love the job and just don't want to leave. 
Some casinos will offer "keeep your own" tipping, and those are the real goldmines if your son is a professional schmoozer. Otherwise, shared tips can land you anywhere from 10-25 dollars an hour, and if your son is good enough to land on a cruise ship, he can make anywhere from 50-100 dollars an hour on a "journey to nowhere" (a cruise out to international waters for the intents of avoiding tax purposes.)
Love: I love the atmosphere, the environment (if you can deal with smoke), the glamour and believe it or not the prestige. Often, players will comment on how amazing you are that you can do the job, when in reality, it's quite a simple affair. You feel a bit like a powerful wizard after a while.
Of special note is when you give a good player a small fortune. I've brought a woman to tears simply by paying her a few grand, even though I have no direct control over the outcome. I've never been so thanked and praised in my life!
Hate: Taking people's money, and occasionally the grumpy player. You'll deal with some abuse, and some player will go straight for what they think hurts you the most; friends, family, death threats, et cetera. In reality however, very little comes from any such player and normally they'lll be removed for good if they cross certain lines.
Taking a brief smoke break after this post, will continue to answer shortly.
Not out of paranoia or anything, but my employers are rather finnicky about online footprints. I won't even come close to answering questions like that.
That said, do you have another question, maybe?
that the odds are better for the casino to get hit by three asteroids at once while simultaneously spontaneously sprouting seven-leaved clovers out of their fake potted plants.
To be honest, I think that if you're playing Poker and two Royal Flushes are dealt, it simply ends up a tie. Don't quote me on that because I don't think anyone in the industry has ever had to deal with it often enough for there to be a policy.
Wish they had single zero wheels. But I always play a fixed amount on the table and winnings go into my pocket.
But the rule the more lights and blinky bling the worse the odd, right?
Craps is wild to watch. Still don't get it. 
Splitting tens is one of the cardinal sins of Blackjack, but not just for the reason you'd think of throwing away a "winning hand"; Many players believe that if you take too many cards, or the wrong combination of cards, you're "Taking the dealer's break card." For instance if you split tens against a dealer Five, and you receive two more tens for your trouble, you've somehow "stopped" the dealer from receiving one of those tens, and the rest of the players will lose.
To be clear, that is superstition alone. "By the book" players know that no matter what one person does, those actions have absolutely no direct effect upon any hand following it, including the dealer's. The problem you suffer from is when players only selectively remember the book and are looking to blame their loss on a factor within their perceived realm of control; you. If they bitch and whine hard enough at you, they might save themselves from a loss.
This is also superstition. If you wish to split tens (or Q/J or K/10 or whatever), do so with this dealer's blessing and a "Godspeed." It's your money. Hell, if you whipped out your wallet and lit fire to it, that's your right and I wouldn't stop ya. The only thing I can say is "You take your chances." Your odds aren't good, but if you're feeling lucky, go for it.
Find a table and settle in. Play smart and outlast them if you can, and once the table is yours and yours alone, start splitting tens against the dealer's fours, fives and sixes (twos and threes are too dangerous to risk splitting up a twenty against). When another player sits down, -let them know.- Look straight at them and tell them "I split tens against break cards." This will immediately scare off anyone who will give you shit while you retain plausible deniability.
On the flip side, if you want to clear a table for yourself, plunk yourself down in the middle of an ongoing hand, wait for the hand to resolve, and then make your declaration of intent: "Just a warning ahead of time, I split my tens." This will normally scare off the superstitious or the skittish.
Just be courteous. If a table appears to be going well, give those players the chance to finish the shoe before you sit down (superstition that it's a "good shoe" aside) and make your move. Unless you're an absolute wanker, in which case sit down, say nothing, sprawl across everyone and split everything you can any time you can. Make sure you have a shit-eating grin on your face when you do it, with a middle-finger prepped. 
I'll practice this before I go back. Good stuff.
Thanks!
Or has that notion been exaggerated?
Just curious.
The biggest name I can think of that I dealt to would be Tiger Woods; I dealt to him in our VIP section. Very quiet man, generally gracious, not what I was expecting and I didn't even know it was him until someone told me.
A bandmate from Hootie and the Blowfish, I think. Not that I'd know it; never followed 'em.
Someone said I dealt to Flloyd Mayweather once, but I didn't know that one either. Boxing ain't my thing, but if it's who I thought it was, -that- guy's obnoxious. I just wanted him off my table.
I dealt to one of the "Reality stars" from Jersey Shore... Paulie or Pinto or something. He didn't last long, but he wasn't as much of a yutz as I thought he'd be.
Apparently, last week I beat the hell out of an Oakland Raiders linebacker, but I'll be damned if he wasn't the most civil, funny, friendly player I've ever met! I wish I had caught his name.
I also dealt to a Houston Rocket, and while I didn't know who he was, he was the tallest player I've ever seen (easily topping seven foot tall), he had four beautiful women following him around, and almost our entire security force covering him.
So, I mean, yes, I've dealt to famous people, but famous or obscure, their money is all the same. I don't reallly notice unless someone points it out.
Technically, Casinos do have the ability to alter slot payouts, but if they get caught doing it by either the state gaming commission or even a whistleblower, the entire operation can be shut down; few casinos would risk such retaliation.
In regards to why you may or may not have won, you have to understand that slot payouts are derived from overall input versus overall output. Let's say, for example, that a machine takes in $100,000 a day. That machine, in turn, is bound by programming to return 80-90% of that money, but the rub is that it has an infinite timeline to do so. It is entirely possible, albeit unlikely, that a machine will never return its required percentage within the normal lifespan of a human.
If you were spending a large amount of money during your holiday gambling, you have to remember that there are hundreds of other people doing the -exact same thing- as you. Your thousand dollar loss and ten more losses like it may very well have been repaid in the form of a ten thousand dollar jackpot to the twelth gambler on that machine or machines, while the casino still turns a thousand dollar profit.
In regards to gaming cards: Think of them less like digital monitoring and more like "rewards cards". While we are capable of tracking your gaming habits, the sheer logistics and data analysis required to do what you have suggested on a large scale(I.E., hooking via big win, et cet) is beyond the data's programming. In my casino, for the most part, your rating card is just an easy way to monitor your comp data and get you free stuff if you ask for it.
Also, gaming cards are a bit of casino insurance for us: If you hit a jackpot, you can't try to avoid the taxes on it if you have a card, since we have your vital information (SS, license, et cet.) You'd be surprised how many people don't want to pay taxes on a 200k win. ~.~
...your answers are--what are the words?--not unexpected.
Casinos have had the ability to tighten-loosen slots at the flip of a computer switch for a long time. And if they employ the sharpest computer gurus available to them, they can hide their tracks.
One Vegas casino VIP actually bragged of the ability back in 2006. Nobody ever asked him why have the ability if you can't legally use it. Then again, if slots have an infinite timeline to return winnings to players (as you wrote), some of this starts to make more sense.
That same computer power can analyze every player, every computer in a network of casinos, in a split second. It's not a logistics/analysis problem at all, not with today's computer power.
I do appreciate your response here, very interesting and helpful.
It's the word of your employers that I don't believe or trust.
I'm the guy up in the stars digging up the minerals and whatnot you need to keep you supplied with guns and ammo. There are only a few Dust-involved corporations in EVE proper, and those guys... I don't wanna mess with those guys.
I came to the conclusion long ago that there's no such thing as a fair fight, sadly enough. There's a good chance that if you're getting skynuked, there's about a hundred ships up there watching the planet and waiting for their time to nuke as well.
Take cover?
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