Take-and-Pay Procedure

Now it's time to teach you the take-and-pay procedure, which you are going to be using a lot while you deal. Depending on what game you're dealing, you'll take all of the losing bets first before paying the winners. On blackjack, you will handle the bets in order, starting from the right and going left. After all of the bets have been gone through, pick up the cards and place them in the discard rack.

Now, if the player loses, you'll always take that money first, and you'll take as many cheques as you can hold before placing them in your rack. Sort the cheques out after you have put the cards in the discard rack, and you're waiting for the players to make their bets. You never sort through the cheques on the table.

You're always going to sort your cheques in the rack. Now, if the player wins, then pay the bet. There are two different ways of paying the bet. The simplest way is called color for color, or you can convert. However, converting is a more advanced move that you'll learn after working in the casino for a while.

Color for color means that you pay a uniform stack of cheques with the same color and the same amount of cheques. Now you never want to touch or mess with the player's cheques if you are going to pay color for color. Always size into the bet.

Pay all the bets in the circle and the payoffs must touch all winning wagers. Now let's say if you had a double down, all double downs must be paid outside of the circle. For clarity, this is perfectly acceptable. Then pick up the cards and put them in the discard rack.

You never, ever want to make a partial payoff when you're paying the bets. Either pay the entire wager all at once or nothing at all. So, if you go out to the bet and you don't have enough to pay it, bring the entire stack of chips back to the rack, get more chips, and then pay the full amount.

Always make sure you pay the bet with clean money. Some casinos will want you to pay each winning bet with clean money because that is the proper way to deal. Even though it is a bit slower. This means that when you're done picking up all of the lost bets, you will place them in the rack and then you will take clean money out of the rack in order to pay the player. You never want to pay a player's bet with dirty money (or money that has previously lost). Now, as a casino party dealer, you're not dealing in an actual casino. So again, it's a lot more easy going than if you were in a casino. So, paying with clean money is not a big deal, as it would be in the casino. If you take dirty money and pay with dirty money, that's okay, because you are dealing at a casino party and you don't have to worry about the eye-in-the-sky or management telling you not to pay with dirty money. Just so you know, that is something that you do when dealing in a casino, but not really something you have to worry about when dealing at a casino party.

Now, what do you do if a player has a rainbow bet? A rainbow bet is when you have multiple chips of different colors. Now, if you have to pay a rainbow bet, you always break down the bet and pay color for color. If you were dealing in a casino, that makes it a lot easier for the eye-in-the-sky to verify the amount and then pay each color separately.

If both hands are the same, this is a push and no money is exchanged. The dealer will tap the table, indicating that it is a push. Now, the reason why the dealer does that is to inform both the players, the floor supervisor, and the cameras that it is a push.

Now, one of the things you don't want to do is never pay the bet with an incorrect amount. Also, don't throw or slide the chips at the player. This is rude. Also don't drop cut.