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Buy-ins and Cheque-Change are crucial parts of dealing as they are extremely common and you will be performing these on a daily and more than hourly basis. There is a good chance that you will encounter one or both of these during a live audition at a casino. They are a foundational ability of any dealer and should be handled with extreme confidence.

When a player would like to buy-in with cash, they may try to give you the cash by hand. We are not allowed to take or give absolutely anything to/from a player's hand directly. All transactions must be placed on the table before the other party may touch it. This applies to player's cards, cash, cheques, passports, I.D's, etc.

Please ask the player to place the cash or cheques on the table then pick it up and start to lay it on the dealer's left side of the shuffle pad. The left side of the shuffle pad is where we place incoming cash or cheques and the right side of the shuffle pad is for cheques that are leaving the rack and going to the player; regardless of where the player is sitting or where the player gives the cash or cheques to you. Remember: "Incoming on the left, outgoing on the right."

The camera must always see both sides of each and every bill and each bill should be checked for authenticity. A good way to check for authenticity is to scrape your nail on the jacket of the the prominent image of any bill. You should feel texture. If the bill is too worn, there are other indicators of authenticity like the ghost image on the right side of the bill if you hold it up to the light, color-changing ink on the $100 bill, even red and blue dyed fibers embedded in the bills that look like very fine hairs. If you need a better explanation of how to check for these security features, Google and YouTube are your friends.

All bills are placed in rows of no more than 5; with $50 bills being the exception being laid in rows of 4. Different denomination bills must not be touching. If you have multiple bills of the same denomination, you may overlap them. Keep in mind that from the dealer's perspective, the higher denomination bills should be on the dealer's right and getting smaller the closer to the center of the table you get.

As far as which direction the bills must be laid, (either face-up or face-down), it depends on your casino's house rules. I've seen casinos that prefer all face-up, all face-down, and even casinos that want $100 bills face-up and all other bills face-down. There are many casinos that don't even care what the direction you lay it. So this is completely determined by your house rules. For auditions, we recommend to lay all bills face-down as there is usually bigger numbers on the backs of the bills making it easier for surveillance to recognize how much money is on the table.

Once you cut out the cheques on the right side of the shuffle pad, you must LEAVE THEM CUT DOWN. Then you will make your call to floor stating, "Changing $100!". If the amount you are changing is $100 or more, it is an approval call. If the amount is any value less than $100, you will make the same announcement but do not have to wait for floor's response since it is an alert call now. Cheque-Change will follow these same rules.

After you receive your approval from floor if it was needed, you will stack up the cheques and pass them to the player with 1 hand to the best of your ability. Sending their buy-in or cheque-change as multiple stacks is completely fine.

Buy-ins or cheque-change in the middle of the hand is completely acceptable but must meet a few simple conditions. First, the player asking for change must currently be in the active hand; not a bystander. Second, the player must need the change to complete an action in that hand; think double-downs, splits, or insurance. If both of these conditions are not met, then you must tell the player that they have to wait until the end of the hand for you to make change for them.

As stated in the video, making change for cocktail waitresses in the middle of the hand is still not permitted but dealers frequently do it on order to help out their fellow co-workers. However; this is still not considered a professional demeanor.

Once the player has received their cheques, you may scoop up the cash and paddle it into the table which is usually located on the right side of the rack behind the discard rack. If it was cheque-change, you may simply put the cheques in your rack with their respective colors.

Keep in mind that every casino has their own house rules and the procedures displayed in this video may not be how others were trained or how your house will want you to handle this particular situation. This is simply a standard blueprint that should get you through your audition. Always do what your floor supervisor tells you to do in the end.

0:00 Intro
0:49 Buy-Ins
3:59 Buy-In Examples
7:44 Making Change Mid-Hand
9:10 Double Down Example
9:47 Cheque-Change