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A croupier or dealer is a casino
Casino

A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions....
 employee who takes and pays out bets or otherwise assists at a gaming
Gambling

Gambling is the wikt:wager#Verb of money or something of material Value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods....
 table. In American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 usage, dealer may imply a card game, but this is not always the case. For example it is common to refer to a craps
Craps

Craps is a dice game played against other players or a bank. Craps developed from a simplification of the Old English game Hazard . Its origins are highly complex and may date to the Crusades, later being influenced by French gamblers....
 dealer .

Tipping
In general, the croupier works only for their salary and does not have a personal interest in the outcome of the game.






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A croupier or dealer is a casino
Casino

A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions....
 employee who takes and pays out bets or otherwise assists at a gaming
Gambling

Gambling is the wikt:wager#Verb of money or something of material Value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods....
 table. In American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 usage, dealer may imply a card game, but this is not always the case. For example it is common to refer to a craps
Craps

Craps is a dice game played against other players or a bank. Craps developed from a simplification of the Old English game Hazard . Its origins are highly complex and may date to the Crusades, later being influenced by French gamblers....
 dealer .

Work


Tipping


In general, the croupier works only for their salary and does not have a personal interest in the outcome of the game. However, particularly in American casinos, a successful player customarily shares the wealth by providing the croupier with a tip. The croupier traditionally recognizes a generous tip by saying 'merci pour les employés' or 'Thanks on behalf of the employees', as most tips are paid into a general fund, pooled, and divided amongst all the staff. In any casino, croupiers are required to remain professional at all times. Fraternising with customers is frowned upon, and most casinos prevent their gaming staff from being seen with their uniforms on outside the casino.

Training


Training methods to become a casino croupier are different from country to country. In North America, blackjack
Blackjack

Blackjack is the most widely played casino game banking game in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting ....
 is almost always the game that dealers learn first, as it is simple and popular, and when the dealer makes errors, they tend not to cost the casino much money. In Europe, croupiers tend to learn roulette
Roulette

Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French language word meaning "small wheel". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a number, a range of numbers, the color red or black, or whether the number is odd or even....
 first. Complex, busy games such as craps, with complicated payout systems, etc. are usually reserved for the most competent dealers.

Choice in dealing

In most casinos, most dealers do not have a choice in which games they will deal - the casinos will issue them their games based on demand. Staff turnover rates are high in the casino industry, so within 12 months a dealer will find themselves learning a second, sometimes a third game.

Legal


Licensing


During the initial training processes, croupiers are also required to apply for a gaming license. This license includes police background checks and credit rating checks, to ensure that they are reliable enough to commence employment.

Once the license has been issued, croupiers are then able to take to the gaming floor, provided they have passed their table test in the game that they are learning. The art form of dealing any casino game is "technique first, speed later". Beginner dealers, or "lumpies" as they are known (because their shuffling and chip manipulation is staggered and 'lumpy' compared to experienced dealers), are likely to go slow and focus on getting everything right. The speed will evolve naturally, and after about three months in the same game, their speed is up to casino standards, they will deal on a lot more tables.