How to Become a Professional Croupier

Summary

• the training schools to become dealers and croupiers
• what it takes to become a croupier
• courses to follow
• how much do you earn by being a croupier?
• and how much does a dealer earn?
• be a dealer for online casinos
• working hours

Dealers and croupiers are key professional figures in the live gambling industry as well as live casinos . To make a comparison, it is as if they were the captains of a ship that, alone, could not sail the seas. Dealers and croupiers, in fact, have the task of managing the dynamics of table games , collecting bets, making payments and, why not, entertaining patrons.

But how do you become a professional dealer or croupier? And what career opportunities can open up to those who choose to take a path no less hard than others, but at the same time full of satisfactions - both economic and personal?

The Training Schools to become dealers and croupiers

There are several online courses and schools for dealers and croupiers and some of them are:

• Malta ITS Croupier Training Center
• iGaming Academy
• ACE Academy

What it takes to become a croupier

All courses for dealers and dealers guarantee a certificate of attendance and an official certificate at the end of the course. However, not everyone can participate in the courses to become a dealer, because some prerequisites are generally required for safety and scams:

• Age between 18 and 35 years (although some courses also accept over 35s)
• Having no criminal record
• Good knowledge of the English language
• Good predisposition to math
• Do not have visible tattoos

Courses to follow

After having carried out a preliminary interview, the aspiring croupiers and dealers will be able to start the courses, which, depending on the type of course, can teach the management and tricks of games such as:

• Poker (dealer course)
• Blackjack
• Roulette
• Caribbean Poker
• Craps (dice)

Usually, students are offered job offers at the end of the course, especially abroad, in European casinos or on cruise ships . The employment rate of a croupier who attended a training school is very high, because the demand for this particular type of worker by gambling halls all over the world is very high and constant.

How much do you earn by being a croupier?

Answering this question is not easy, because as often happens when it comes to gambling there are many "depends". Let's say that an inexperienced croupier, who leaves a course and starts working in a gambling hall not among the most important in Europe, can have an expectation of earnings ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 euros net per month.

The more experienced croupiers can easily reach 2,000 / 2,500 euros , while the pit managers (or if you prefer pit bosses) aim for figures much higher than the 4,000 euros per month . Not to mention the tip , hardly quantifiable but which in reality can represent a sort of bonus capable of increasing the salary by a good 35% .

Generally, casinos do not allow croupiers to directly pocket the tips, which instead end up in a sort of general "piggy bank". At the end of the month, all tips collected by croupiers and dealers are divided, in some cases equally into others based on length of service or the type of game managed - there are simpler games to manage, such as blackjack, and others. more complex, such as roulette.

And how much does a dealer earn?

The dealer is a professional figure detached from that of the croupier, because he specializes in the management of poker tables , whether they are in tournament or cash game mode. A poker dealer must of course know Texas Hold'em, the most famous variant in the world, but also other variants such as:

• Pot Limit Omaha
• Five Card Draw
• Seven Card Stud
• 2-7 Triple Draw
• HORSE
• Casino Holdem

On average, a novice dealer can earn around 1,200 euros per month. With a little experience, and the ability to manage tournament tables and rich and important cash games, the salary can rise substantially.

Be a dealer for online casinos

Yes, thanks to the technological innovations that led to the birth of live casinos, it is now possible to become a croupier in online casinos too. Live casinos, in fact, are a particular type of offer inherent in online casinos, which provides for the management of gaming tables by flesh and blood croupiers.

The croupiers of online casinos work inside real television studios , furnished and dressed up to remember the inside of a room of a real land-based casino. The croupiers are connected through a webcam system that allows the online casino player to interact directly, via chat. Find out more in our guide to live casinos .

Working hours

Live casinos, as well as land-based casinos , are also open practically 24 hours a day, 7 days a week , so to cover a practically infinite time slot, online casinos must be able to count on a large number of dealers, to be rotated both in terms of time and in terms of games.

This means that in addition to the classic land-based casinos and cruise ships opportunities, becoming a dealer or croupier today also means being able to count on the possibility of finding work in the context of a virtual gambling hall.