They said that it was all still in the act of being decided by the gambling board however a few things were made clear to me:ġ) In order to be a licensed poker dealer in a Pennsylvania Casino you have to pass an accredited class that lasts at least 80 hours and this has to have happened in the past six months or less.

I took the two guys who ran the panel aside and spoke to them asking about my training.

Next week I go in for a math test and another round of personality testing (yes, two more things that have little to do with what I learned in dealer school) and if I make it to the next round then a drug test (which will be fine as long as beer is not on the banned substance list) and then they look to getting me trained. That left the rest of us and as I expected, those three were sent home (two spoke in heavy accents that I could barely understand and the other was a frumpy housewife-type). They asked us two questions, neither of which dealt with poker or casinos in general - the first was about the best customer service we ever received and the other was about what motivates us to do a good job at work.Īt this point they left for a bit to decide our fate and three people were called off. Didn't remember their names but one of them is apparently the VP of Table Games for all of Harrah's. I was included in a group of about a dozen and a half other hopeful applicants who sat in tables that were set up like a horseshoe and two gentlemen in ties and jackets greeted us. He seemed to like me and he sent me along to the second step, a panel interview. Sitting next to him was a guy who looked really familiar - apparently he runs the Showboat poker room. I stood in a long line after getting there at around 7:30 PM yesterday (which was amazing considering it was at the end of a four hour Job Fair, the second of three of them - those who say that the economy sucks and that casinos do provide a good number of jobs are both right) and filled out an application even though I already applied online at the Harrah's website and even though I made up a Dealer Resume.Īfter filling it out and getting in line I finally found myself in a one-on-one situation with a guy who was nice and asked me about ten questions that all had to do with my personality and attitude with one or two questions asking me specifically why I wanted to be a poker dealer but none of which addressed my qualifications (which, while lacking compared to someone with casino experience was probably strong at an open Job Fair). The Job Fair assumes that not many people in the area have dealer experience or training and in fact whatever credentials I have neither helped nor hurt me. I just went to a Table Games Job Fair for Harrah's.

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