Course Information
The Casino Institute offers casino-specific training tailored to the casino of your choice. Although casinos offer a variety of table games, each has its own procedures. Learning these procedures gives our students an advantage over other applicants during casino auditions. In most cases, enrolling in every course is not necessary to qualify for employment. Contact us for information about the courses required to pass an audition at your preferred casino. Call us to learn about discounts for multiple courses and casino employees.
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Table Games Dealer
This course offers complete training and preparation for the following games, Blackjack Shoe, Blackjack Pitch, Pai Gow Poker, Baccarat, and additional casino-specific carnival games as required by the casino of your choice. This course is required by all casinos to audition as a Table Games Dealer. This course will teach you the fundamentals of cheque handling, rack management, blackjack payoffs, customer money transactions, proper card dealing techniques, game protection and customer service interaction scenarios, and many other casino-specific procedures required by the casinos.
Poker Dealer Course
This course provides training in the most popular casino poker games, including Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Hi-Lo, and Pot-Limit Omaha. Students learn Limit, No-Limit, Spread-Limit, Pot-Limit, and tournament structures. Graduates will have the skills and knowledge needed to audition and deal in major casinos and card rooms. The course also teaches students how to recognize common cheating scenarios and apply game-protection techniques. Our instructors explain casino policies and procedures in depth, including how and why they protect players, dealers, and the casino.
Craps Dealer Course
The Craps course is designed to prepare confident, employable dealers who are proficient in all dealing procedures. Training begins with chip handling, game terminology, and the rules of craps, followed by extensive hands-on practice with primary and advanced betting, take-and-pay procedures, totaling, payoff conversions, stick handling, and dice calls. Students then progress to proposition bets, place bets, come bets, buy bets, odds, casino variations, customer service, and game protection.
Roulette Dealer Course
This course covers the rules, equipment, and procedures of roulette. Students receive hands-on training in chip handling, including how to push and pull chips, process customer money transactions, and operate the table equipment. Instruction also covers take-and-pay procedures, picture bets, keys, markers, call bets, fills and credits, table minimum and maximum limits, payoff conversions, casino variations, customer service, and game protection.