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FLOORMAN
The floorman's
job is varied. Being the one executive in constant touch
with the players, he is supposed to put on a friendly front
and to chat and be courteous to the gamblers. At the same
time, he watches the games and makes certain that no cheating
is going on, that no card counters are hurting the casino's
bankroll, and that the bankroll is being protected at all
times.
The job can
be both grueling and boring at the same time and the suspicious
and unsmiling faces a player often encounters while at the
table are not those of pit bosses, but of floormen.If a
high roller, a stranger to the casino, is at the table,
floorman may hover around, getting acquainted with the player
as best he can, offering him the services of the hotel so
that he continues gambling at that club.
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RISE
OF MONUMENTAL
However, with the rise of monumental, thematically designed
gambling palaces in recent years, such as the MGM Grand, Mirage
and Treasure Island in Las Vegas and the Taj Mahal in Atlantic
City, to name just a few, the overhead or "nut"
is tremendous. Entertainment alone costs these hotels millions
of dollars per year, and the free drinks, cheap food, and
other services offered the players to get their "warm
bodies" into the casino runs into more millions.
To feed this constant nut,
the big and opulent casinos need action from gamblers, and
their definition of action isn't players who are going to
try their luck at the tables with a series of $2 and $5 bets
for a couple of hours. The casinos do make money from these
players, but what they really want are the big bettors, the
high rollers, who will think nothing of losing $50,000 or
more at the tables in the course of a couple of days.
If they can't get the $50,000
players, the $30,000 gamblers will do as well, and if they
can't get them, a $10,000 limit player is still preferable
to a grind that loses $40 at blackjack after getting three
free drinks, eating the special buffet lunch, and cashing
in a free coupon for a lucky buck or a roll of nickels. |
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