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Originally Posted by
dalmatian
Some stores train dealers to signal verbally when a threshold in tolerance has been surpassed. They yell out something like "black action" or "check play". I assume that this triggers a review? They will do this to obvious ploppies too.
No. The primary reason is to track the black chips and to know who you want to comp and get their rating right. A side benefit can be less friendly if they choose to use the info that way. Just watch the reaction to checks play. Unsuspicious response is for Floor to come over and see what the bet is and glance at the chip tray to note how many black chips are there so they know how many you end up with. It is standard to only pay one player black chips when practical. Once that player is established black chip action should only be called when a different player is given black chips or makes a wager with a black chip. When multiple players are black chipping the Floor has no crutch to track black chips without watching. He will be a very frequent visitor or a dedicated observer when that is the case because that is the only way for him to track black chips. Of course this requires the dealer and Floor be on the same page. This is not dealer 101 procedures. It is the procedures a more experienced dealer will follow. Less experienced dealers will cal checks play every time and call the Floor over too frequently for black action. If it is busy the Floor will hate this. His pit has some big bettors in it but the game slows to crawl and he can't show the kind of hold he would like to show. As lame as it sounds the suits often get blame or credit for low hold and/or drop, or large hold and/or drop. the truth is they have very little to do with either. Now there are tolerance thresholds but I don't think the dealers are aware of them.
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