Poker Dealer in Paris

[NOKYJOKER]

Today i'm happy to post this thread in order to tell everyone that i'm gonna have a 100% change of lifestyle!

After jumping from one job to the other in the biogenetics laboratories research, i finally recognize that it's unfortunately not something that will bring me the joy, happiness and money that i need...

consequently i getting ready to enter the real poker world:crown: and i'm so happy of it!!

I'm going to have a formation for one month in march to become a pro poker dealer!!

The center of formation was created by poker pros (maybe you saw Michel Heinzenberg on the WPT paris open final table) in order to give the casino and the poker circles some pro dealers...

In france, Poker is growing every day! Poker rooms are oppening and alot of casinos and poker circle need workers..
..i'm gonna pay 1500€ for this formation and will have 100% chance to find a job that pays at least 2000€ to 3000€ a month!!
if i finish "major" of that formation for the month of march i can choose where i want to go work!! offcourse my aim is to finish first!!

So i'm gonna move to paris soon! and maybe if you go there i'll meet you at the table and give you some good cards!!:crown:

[scotlady]

Well done Noky, really hope it works out for you. You need to keep us updated on ur progress please. Hehe at least if u do come to one of the Live events here you can teach everyone;) :D

[Killashandra]

Great JC. Get a first, and get a job in a major casino.

[Jazzer32]

After jumping from one job to the other in the biogenetics laboratories research, i finally recognize that it's unfortunately not something that will bring me the joy, happiness and money that i need...



But why quit? U were very successful in biogenetics... U manage to combine donkey and man in one body....:D

[NOKYJOKER]

But why quit? U were very successful in biogenetics... U manage to combine donkey and man in one body....:D
yeh but i still wasn't able to give this donkey/man hybrid the gene necessary to know "how to shave normally"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/NOKYJOKER/jazzers.jpg:eek: :beaten: :D

[Jazzer32]

LMAO!!!!

[FOURDEAD36]

wtg m8!!!!!! i wish you luck my friend

[cazwil56]

Great going Noky I wish you all the best in your venture.

[mad4Cards]

It's so good to see someone takng a chance and following a dream. Hope it's everything and more than you are looking for.:)

[ZER007]

Nice. The WPT have dealers that travel with them wherever they go. That would be a nice gig.

[zazu0526]

Congratuations Noky! Wishing you the best and looking forward to hearing all about it ;)

[Kingwithouthiscrown]

Sounds awesome, best of luck.

[pinkbiatch]

ill come visit and lose some money on ur casino :P

[carz990]

lets cheat that casino 60% - 40% in my favour?

[NOKYJOKER]

ill come visit and lose some money on ur casino :P

lets cheat that casino 60% - 40% in my favour?

naaa casino here take from 2% (rare) to 5%(most) rackesand so 2 to 5% will be the only thing i'll be able to change:P and after spending some times in paris poker circles i have to say that i won't be one of those dealer who eat the pot with like 10% of the pot in rakes!! it's so annoying when you play cash!!

[mimi2mik]

good luck nok!:)

[carz990]

naaa casino here take from 2% (rare) to 5%(most) rackesand so 2 to 5% will be the only thing i'll be able to change:P and after spending some times in paris poker circles i have to say that i won't be one of those dealer who eat the pot with like 10% of the pot in rakes!! it's so annoying when you play cash!!

im talking blackjack kinda cheating ;)

[susibear30]

good luck noky ;) :hearts:

[NOKYJOKER]

woohoo just received the confirmation for the formation! it start the 3 march and end the 29 march!! 5days a week from 10 am to 5pm!!
:D

[BITOLA]

WOHOO great JC congrats!:wave:

[rabybaby3]

WOW NOKY THTS GREAT IT SOUNDS LIKE SUCH AN ADVENTURE I WISH U ALL THE LUCK AND HAPPINESS WITH IT :)

[carz990]

3-1 noky gets fired (and or) gets caught with hand in the till/quits within 1st month, 10-1 shot within the week

[Survivor777]

:):hearts: Noky, wishing you much happiness as you follow your dreams :hearts::)

This is a quote by Henry David Thoreau, which made me think of you :)

"I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

[bluelips]

3-1 noky gets fired (and or) gets caught with hand in the till/quits within 1st month, 10-1 shot within the week

I'll take that bet! 100$??

[mad4Cards]

Am I right in thinking that the job in question hasn't been secured and that you are paying to learn the trade in the hope of a job at the end of it? I think I misread this thread to begin with....

[NOKYJOKER]

Am I right in thinking that the job in question hasn't been secured and that you are paying to learn the trade in the hope of a job at the end of it? I think I misread this thread to begin with....

yeh that's it mad...thaaaat's it!! i mean yeh that's it you misread it:P

[mad4Cards]

yeh that's it mad...thaaaat's it!! i mean yeh that's it you misread it:P

LOL good luck with it, sincerely meant. Not many people brave enough to take such a leap. :)

[2PAC06150]

:wave:good luck my friend....bone a chance a toi poto, et en esperant tt le meilleur pr toi ds ta vie future et pi ke je seré de la partie...mai il faut ke l'on reste en contact....BIG MERDE A TOI:P

[NOKYJOKER]

get on line greg and i'll give you the documentation!

[babsone]

You already know my thoughts and wishes for you Noky as discusses ms

I know you are going to go to the top with this:win:

Just had a thought maybe wass live tournies can go to your casino now that would be woohoo:wave:

Much luck and good wishes are sent to you x

[NOKYJOKER]

Alrite every here's a shortened diary of my first week at the Poker dealer Formation!

It's Wonderfull!!lol

we're 21 "pupils" and first week was work without chips to learn all the pokers we need to know to work on french casino and poker circles! 12 pokers for the dealer choice tables for now (soon we gonna learn to deal badugi, 2to seven triple draw for some special limit cash table)

i have to say i learned alot of course for all the dealing process but mostly on the "to do" and the "no no" to do to hold a table corectly! it's really a new sight of poker for me and i encourage everyone to consider what the dealer work is!

the game we learn the dealing process are :
NLHE
Double Holdem
PLOM
PLOM 5cards
O8
O8 5 cards
Aviation (sort of pineapple)
Courchevelle (it's a pure french Poker)
Courchevel hi lo
Stud 7
Stud 7hi lo
Nullo (2 to 7 Stud7)


i have to say that playing online some of this games was a big advantage for reading the cards faster!
some results on reading cards and part of the pot to give to player test i had : this was on a sheet
Texas Holdem TEST1 : 18/18
Dealer Choice TEST1 : 21/23
Yes it's the best score!!:D

and as some of us were really advanced on the technics we started dealing with chips on a pot limit structure!! and that's a big mess wow! but i'mgood at it:cool: i think i was a calculator in a past life :rolleyes::P

it's really motivating and everyone is really nice! i'm always on the last to stay there because one of the formator have a furry of dealing after each day so we play a lil cash game with play money jus for fun! we played with the chef a poker Pro Michel Heizenberg (3rd of the WPT paris 2004) and actually he dealt some of our cards just for fun!! he's a bad dealer lol but realy funny!! i took a video as one of the formator who was still here said he never saw him dealing before and that he had to waait 6 month to finally see him dealing!! lol !! it's history now and got it on my phone lol!!

we hada MTT play money today and i dealt the finale table (as my TT got cracked by QJ after my shortstack went allin UTG and called by 107 and QJ:( Q on flop:mad:) but was fun!!

that's all for now!:wave:

[Killashandra]

Great that it is going good Nok.

[snowflake01]

very very nice JC :)

[Survivor777]

:wave: Hi Noky - miss ya :) What a great opportunity and you must be enjoying it so much !!!!

Personally I really enjoyed reading about your journey thus far. Please keep us updated :D

:hearts: *hug*

[NOKYJOKER]

this week we had a dealer turnover on some 250€ and 100€ (playmoney)PL dealer's choice table, when you're not dealer you're a player! thing is that you are allowed to rebuy once freely but second rebuy is 1€ and other rebuy are 1€ also(just to not donk indefinetly lol)

so at those table when you're dealer you have to deal for the poker that the dealer choose out of the 12 listed above!! it's really fun and tricky!

here are 2 video i made with my phone during this week! me at the dealer seat comig soon:P!

Welcome to the Poker Dealer Academy (http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/NOKYJOKER/?action=view&current=9c92d1b0.pbr)

A hand of AVIATION (http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/NOKYJOKER/?action=view&current=MOV00003.flv)

:wave:

[babsone]

Wow that is so good to see ty and Gl:wave:

So it didnt show the end result for the game ?

[NOKYJOKER]

Wow that is so good to see ty and Gl:wave:

So it didnt show the end result for the game ?

Aviation is a ame where oyu have 4 cardin the hole. After the first round of beting you ave to discard one of you cardandafter theecon round of betting you have to disard another one ad then finish the hand like a normal holdem hand so i folded My AK when the turn showed another T and actually it was good because someone had quads tens!! lol

i was still chip leader aft the end of this hand!!

[babsone]

Well done indeed and think I will give that game a miss:wave::P

[Survivor777]

Really enjoying reading about your journey Noky and watching the clips! Keep em coming :D

[NOKYJOKER]

sorry because i didn't do new movies i kinda forgot it because it was the end of the formation and things were going fast and now it's over....the formation ended with a tournament in which the starting stacks were made according the results in (free)cash games during the 4 past weeks...and i started with 5650 instead of the basic 1500 for those who were down in the cash games....

as we didn't have time to play a normal tournament as usual we played a mega turbo tourney(doubling blinds every 15 mins) which may have been quiet unfair for the short stacks but not for me:D after a good run i was the chip leader but before the finale table i took a bad beat and so i only made 2nd by the end of the day i was very Short stack in HU:( because the other chip leader was on a good run except!

actually i as happy to see him busting the last player before Head up because i was short stacked and mostly because only the 2 first got a prize!!
i got a 50€ buy ticket in a poker shop while the 1rst had a 100€ one!!

that's tottally nice as i need a new poker carpet for my parisian gaming nights:D


oh BTW......

(trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr--drumroll--rRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrRrrrrrrrrr..trrrrrrrRRrrrrRrrrrrrr rr)

suspense

trrrrrrrrrRRRrrrrrrrrrTTTTTrrrrrrrrrrrrRRrrrrrr.RR rrrrrr :beaten:(who slapped the drummer)


......I'm gonna work at the Aviation Club de France on the Champ Elysée!!:win:

here is my certificate
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/NOKYJOKER/CERTIFIFCP.jpg
:D
it says bla bla bla i'm the best bla bla bla bravo bravo etc...:P

so i'm tottally happy to have done this formation because now i'm entering the real poker world!!

i'm starting working on the 24 of april!!

I'm gonna do as much as i can to be able to make one international tournament soon as a poker dealer


and for sure i'll post one video of me dealing some hands soon!
....when you come to france don't forget to try to play there!! i'll deal you some bad bea....HUmmmm...sopme good cards:P

:wave:

[Jazzer32]

Congratz NOKY... :win::win::win::win::win:

[Killashandra]

Congrats Nok.
That is a great result.

[novice49]

Congrats to you Noky. I hope you enjoy your new career

[vegasjj]

Totally wonderful NOKY - the professional dealers will be raised one notch by your presence!

BEST of luck and Congrats - have fun - enjoy your career!

Cheers
Judith

[1CanadianGirl]

Tres Bien Noky Felicitation!!!!!
Enjoy your new Career :cool::wave:
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh172/charlessummer/NEW%20PICS/dealer.jpg

[NOKYJOKER]

tx alot everyone!!
for those who don't know about the games of poker i wrote in a pst before (courchevelle, aviation , etc....) i really encourage you all to try to play hem once in a home game or maybe in paris! :p ! they're really skill full and gives a breath for those that basical holdem can bother!

i had news from some who started work today and they gave us the work time!
there's alot of change during a week but the pattern are something like this :

16/23 or 18/1 or 23/7 or 7/14

i hope i'll get more 16/23 than the other!! 18/1 might be ok too!! anyway i' m happy with anything !

oh and it's 5 days a week!

tx again for your support...

[babsone]

Very well done Noky so happy for you and congratulations:wave:

[serzrokoko]

CONGRATULATIONS NOKY

[Jamesdelanight]

yeahhhhh NOKY it's very nice ;)

Enjoy it

And GO GO GO ACES UP lol

good job

:6c: :6d: :6s:

[2PAC06150]

:wave:felicitation jc...je suis tres content pour toi mais comme je t'ai dis c'etait prevu bravooooooo,je te souhaite tt le meilleur pour ta nouvelle vie...;)

[LDRunner]

Noky, I don't know you but this is a very interesting story and I find myself sitting here in northern california some six months after you started rooting for you in a big way. How is it going? I think a lot of people would like to hear. I sure would. I wouldn't be surprised if you were a very successful dealer.
Ron
(LDRunner)

[DedMansHand]

I'll come find ya and give ya a hard time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op4jii_ywxc

[Froliche]

ye noky followup on the story!

[NOKYJOKER]

Ok!
Sorry if i didn't continue the story before...

I started on the first of may, so i'm reaching the end of my fifth month now. And it's been a great experience so far!

i've worked mostly in the nights, from 10pm to 7am ; 7pm to 4 am or 8pm to 5 am, but also in the afternoon when it's the more overcrowed from 2 pm to 11pm or 4pm to 1am.... so you see it's always 9 hours a day at the club for a poker dealer... depending on the day i have 1 hour to 2hours break during those 9 hours and breaks are 10mins (no more but ofently less:rolleyes:). We usually have a 30 mins shift on the tables and that's the basicall table time for everyone BUT the average is more something about 50mins at the table just because of the dealer's roll over that can't be better...

Depending on the table structure (i'm talking about cash games) the time on table for a dealer is really strict!

This way on the 500€ Dealers choice it can be 30 to 50 mins maximum but on the 1k€ ,2k€,3k€....5k€, 10k€ it can't be more than 30mins! That is for the players... to prevent hem to be angry about one dealer that gave hem a bad run etc...

When i enter the Aviation Club de France there was alot of 500€ Dealer"s Choice table and in a way this kind of table is really what makes this club so special because it gives a choice of 12 games played with a Pot limit structure and you can't find that anywere else...

But now the big players have a bit given up on the hilo games so it's Omaha only time! The big tables are now mostly Omaha4 and Omaha5 Pot Limit instead of the 12 games included in the dealer's Choice table! These table are the most difficult for a poker dealer because you have to do alot of things at the same time. The most difficult one is to keep the pot size in head.

When a player want to bet the pot you have to tell him quiet fast how much he can/have to bet !!!
Also the players profiles at these tables are hard to manage with, especially when they just lost a 3k pot on the river:eek:

Sometimes there's a 1k€ NLHE but this table is not here so often... the biggest NLHE table that runs 24/7 are the 250€ (Blinds 5€/5€)

Off course NLHE is the game that is played the most in here but this is at some lower structures! so the 2 thirds of the table in the club are 50€ NLHE (blinds 2€/2€) and 100€ NLHE(2€/4€).

These tables are also hard to manage with but mostly because there's more profile than on the big table :

there are off course good players that know the rules and know how to play but also alot of newbies that never talk at their turn or do alot of string bets:rolleyes:

NOw that you got a good picture of the poker at the club i can say that it's really fun to work there! first because it's a true tough work maybe as hard physically as mentally so that's a great challenge everyday! i love action and i got plently of it everyday!
I like the fact that we're some kind of referee at the table, we have to ensure that the rules are appllied at any moment and we have to keep the game safe from cheaters also we have the role to maintain the poker etiquette and that's definitely not that easy..

Also recently there was some famous players there, So i dealt cards for Freddy deeb , phil Laak and jennifer Tilly also some famous french players that you never heard abou t lol but you prolly will (Bruno 'king' Fitoussi, Anthony Lelouche who came 2nd in the HORSE 50K in 2007 , Patrick Bruel who won a bracelet in1998 etc..) too bad we're not allowed to ask for their signature lol)

that's all i got for you for now cya soon and take care!!:wave:

[fromafar]

Hi :wave: and thanks for the update!

It sounds like this is going well for you. I'm happy you found a career you enjoy! :win:

[realbadhand]

nice post noky....very cool

[serzrokoko]

Thanks Noky :wave:

[ladyluck2468]

keep up the info its good to read:D:wave:well done in the 1500 sorry had to leave for work you could have taken out the other 3 for me lol:wave:

[YellowRose]

Enjoyed the post very interesting keep them coming.

[lena411]

sounds great. glad u enjoy the lifestyle. im inspired. though i think i'd be a (profile) personality of my own if i became a dealer lolz!

[NOKYJOKER]

:wave:
i came with the idea to post some special hand that i dealt!

for the first one i made a lil animation...

it was on a 1k€ cash table (blinds 10€/20€)

i hope you'll enjoyed it:

click here to view it> big set up (http://s411.photobucket.com/albums/pp200/jccanault/?action=view&current=bigsetup.gif)

:wave:
ps: i thought tthe animation was good to show how it can be PDC rigged even in live:P

[FOURDEAD36]

wow what a lay down with 3's over T's..nice job nook..dealing set up hand:eek:

[realbadhand]

damn noky your one of those pdc dealers huh ;-)

[geefers2]

wow, seriously, what a sick fold for the person on the button with 33. did he really insta fold as fast as shown in the replayer, or did he at least tank for a while? what a sick lay down.

[ropndonkies]

def nice fold but the flush has to hit to be a true pdc setup hand!!!:P:P

[NOKYJOKER]

the guy in the button thought like 30 - 45 sec then he folded! thing is it's live poker don't forgtet this and the guy on the cuttof was really acting like he was sure of his hand , not talking but his body language was strong and the BB is a donk! After this hand he put 7k onthe table from his poket to donk again!lol

[NOKYJOKER]

Yesterday i was getting ready for a dealer change on a 50€ table, in the back of the table's current dealer, when he dealt this hand just under my eyes....

preflop

UTG folded and everyone till the cuttoff folded too...
the CUTOFF raise to 12€...
the BUTTON passes
SB passes too
BB raises to 36€
CUTOFF calls 36€
( the pot size is 74€ )

FLOP :Ah::As::Ac:

BB bets 30€
CUTOFF calls 30€
( the pot size is 134€ )

TURN :Tc:

BB bets 30€
CUTOFF calls 30€
( the pot size is 194€ )
RIVER :7c:

BB bets allin for 70€
CUTOFF calls 70€
( the pot size is 334€ )

BB shows :Td::Th:
CUTOFF shows :Ad::Qh:

the BB have his full AAA TT beaten by a better combination which here is quads Aces so....everyone on the table go completly crazy...

HURRAAAA..clap...clap...wooOOOOoHOOOoooo clap clap...BAD BEATTTT!!!!...clap clap...JACK POT!!!.....!!!clap clap

The guy on the cutoff wins the pot with his quads aces + 25% of the bad beat jackpot which is 5000€ !!!

The BB wins 50% of the bad beat jackpot because he got his... 10 000€:win:

The 7 other players of the table shares the last 25% of the jackpot which means 714€ for each one...

i give a wink to the my buddy dealer on the table which do exactly that..:rolleyes:...lol !

i walk back to the dealer's recreation room whispering sarcasticly to my friend :"GL with the tips;):D"

[lena411]

amazing. AQ vs 1010 what kind of whole card requirements are those? doesnt seem that hard to hit.

[DangerMouse420]

amazing. AQ vs 1010 what kind of whole card requirements are those? doesnt seem that hard to hit.

I think it`s quite common for b+m card rooms to have requirements like aces full beaten by quads to get the bad beat jackpot. Online rooms are much tougher in their requirements. Presumably because they deal so many more hands.

It`s quad 7s or better here isn`t it? Should be any quads imo.

[lena411]

I think it`s quite common for b+m card rooms to have requirements like aces full beaten by quads to get the bad beat jackpot. Online rooms are much tougher in their requirements. Presumably because they deal so many more hands.

It`s quad 7s or better here isn`t it? Should be any quads imo.

i dont even see any quads vs quads but yea 7s or better.

[NOKYJOKER]

amazing. AQ vs 1010 what kind of whole card requirements are those? doesnt seem that hard to hit.

actually the minimum combination requirement in the club is Aces full beaten by a better aces full!!
Also both hole cards have to enter in the 5 cards combination .

only thing is that a pair vs pair with AAA on board doesn't work, in this case of AAA on the board and that someone has a pocket pair, the winning hand has to be a quad ace or better (other quads or str8 flushes)

and Yes it's really easy to win it so just come in Paris and try your "bad" luck:D

[Survivor777]

Aww miss you Noky :( but very happy for you in your new occupation/passion :) Keep us updated; I love reading your posts :wave:

[NOKYJOKER]

Yesterday...I was dealing on the main 50€ cash table, something really sick happened....

a player that was away to smoke a cigaret just came back, he missed the blinds on the round before so in fact he was oblide to post the missed blinds which is 2€ BUT as hewas UTG at this moment he chose to post the straddle (4€)...

so here is the hand...

Preflop
UTG+1 : folds
UTG+2 : RAISE TO 16€
UTG+3 : folds
UTG+4 : folds
UTG+5 : RAISE TO 36€
Button : folds
SB : folds
BB : folds
UTG (straddle): CALLs 36€
UTG+2 : CALLS36€

POT SIZE is 112€
and there's 3 players in the hand

FLOP
:9s: :3h: :Tc:
UTG : CHECKS
UTG+2 : BETS 16€
UTG+5 : RAISES 46€
UTG : ALLIN 44€
UTG+2 : ALLIN 46€

POT SIZE is 112 + 136 = 248€
3players are still in the hand and everyone is allin

So i'm doing the pot and getting ready to show the turn and river but i'm waiting cause the players are talking abou twhat they have :

UTG+5 says : come on guys this one is for me i got 2nd Max hand he shows :9d::9c: which give him trips 9's...

The guy who firstly put the straddles seems weirdly not so unhappy to here about the fact that the guys have hit his set! he didn't show is hand instantanely but he asked the third guy on what he had....

Third guy said i got the "Arrows" which is AA off course, and he shows
:As::Ah: a bit disapointed that the other one hit his set 9's:rolleyes:

There's only one guy who haven't show his hand yet , the "straddle" guy and actually he doesn't want to show his hand...but still strangely confident...

TURN
:2d:

RIVER
............:Ad:

UTG+5 wins the pot with a set of Aces

The straddles guy goes on tilt:mad: and flashes his hand with force on the carpet, he had :Ts::Td::eek::eek:

Everyone is stunned on the table and the stradle guy got up of his chair saying all sort of insanities like : it's unbelievable!! do you guys(dealers) give each other the word to **** me every time!!! etc etc...

[Survivor777]

Wow, very sick :beaten: and players think bad beats don't happen when playing live :eek:. Since I play live also, I've seen lots of bad bets and suffered a few myself in some very similar situations. Thanks for posting it Noky and take care :wave:

[bubbatwo]

:rolleyes:

[serzrokoko]

Hi Noky:wave: