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Excitement, glamour and a well-paying job await you in your new Casino Career. An average Blackjack dealer working in a casino can make $35 - $40 per hour including tips! Casinos employ enthusiastic and energetic people with a flair for handling difficult situations, who love working with people and are fast learners. In addition to posting more than $32 billion in gross gaming revenues in 2006, the 460 commercial casinos in 11 states directly employed 366,197 people. These employees earned a total of $13.3 billion in salaries, including benefits and tips, which equates to a 5.6 percent increase over 2005 figures. Now that’s growth!

This highly interactive online training program will teach you everything you need to know in order to become a Professional Blackjack Dealer. You will learn all the fundamentals required, including: shuffling, how to handle cheques, limits and betting and paying procedures. After graduation from our Blackjack Dealer class, we will continue to support you. Put Johnny Chan’s reputation to work for you when you begin a new casino career. As with all of our students, we play an active role in your job search by posting your personal online profile, complete with a video resume showcasing the valuable skills you’ve learned in this program. Our instructors have years of combined industry experience, and are committed to helping you become the best Casino Blackjack Dealer you can be.

Our Casino Blackjack Dealer program is aimed at teaching students the appropriate methods, techniques, and mannerisms necessary to gain employment within the casino industry’s table games environment. Students will be responsible for viewing online streaming instructional videos, as well as recording and submitting video examinations demonstrating proper game techniques and protocols. Two written examinations (a mid-term and a final) will be given throughout the program. Interactive video emails facilitate student instructor interaction, creating the opportunity for students to have their skill progression visually critiqued by a professional Blackjack dealer instructor. Students will receive their own deck of cards and chips, as well as a fold out Blackjack felt and a web camera to attach to their computer. Upon graduation, the student will have the opportunity to record a streaming video audition to be saved and used in their job search.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students should:

• Become familiar with the rules and regulations of the game of Blackjack
• Achieve a heightened level of physical and professional dexterity relating to the necessary nuances associated with the physical skills of becoming a casino Blackjack dealer. (i.e. shuffling, dealing hands, managing wagers and choosing winners.)
• Acquire the proper knowledge necessary to achieve a level of professionalism associated with the courtesies and mannerisms required within a casino card room.
• Interact with other students and professors in real time and managed group environments.
• Be able to ask and respond to general and specific questions posed by both professors and fellow students relating to problems and questions encountered within the curriculum.
• Visually demonstrate to an instructor the learned ability of the skills necessary to competently adhere to the requirements and standards set for a professional casino card room dealer.
• Facilitate the career process by giving each student the tools, the industry contacts and the confidence necessary to land rewarding casino employment.

I. Card Handling

1. Shuffling the deck
2. Shuffling multiple decks
3. Stripping the deck
4. Running down cards
5. Spreading the cards
6. Picking up cards
7. Using the shoe

II. Cheque Handling

1. Cutting down cheques
2. Plucking and blocking
3. Cheque conversions

III. Dealing the game (Part 1)

1. Rules of blackjack
2. Game layout
3. Body position
4. Opening the game
5. Fills and credits
6. Buying in and making change
7. Tokes
8. Use of the cut cards

IV. Dealing the Game (Part 2)

1. Totaling cards
2. Acting on a hand
3. Insurance
4. Peeking at hole card
5. Splitting
6. Doubling Down
7. Surrender
8. Use of discard holder
9. Paying blackjack
10. Closing the game
11. Blackjack terminology

V. Policy and Professionalism

1. Casino Policies
2. Customer relations
3. Game security
4. Casino personnel
5. Dealer demeanor