I always felt that dealers who had nice auras made me feel more comfortable, and when I was comfortable, I played way way better with less errors. He always rooted for the player, and I always believed in superstition. He said he never worked there again in that pit, ever (he said it was a year ago he said, back when he first started). Anyway, he told me he worked the weekend there and over the weekend, lost $200,000 of the casino's money. I think it was double deck 100 min - 500 max. Dude had a fast car and a gf and was just living life.Īnyway, he told me the story that one weekend they put him in the High Stakes pit. Illinois and Mississippi have a graduated tax schedule. In Missouri, the tax rate is 18 percent, and there is an additional 2 percent tax to aid local city governments. Experience around the world shows that casinos are the kiss of death for the neighbourhoods and cities in which they are located. Issue 1: Most states tax adjusted casino revenue and use the taxes to fund state and local programs. Anyway Troy was the absolute NICEST guy in the world He was super positive, young, and happy. In a recent article of the Toronto Sun that discusses a proposed waterfront casino for the city of Toronto, the author Christopher Hume makes the following statement.
Back then you could be a dealer at 18, and he was probably 19 or 20 by then, averaging $30k/yr (cuz the tipout) and had no bills in upstate New York where it's dirt cheap to live.
Years ago I worked at Turning Stone Casino, and I befriended a dealer, let's call him Troy.
