Shifts

[Felix Rue-de-Guerre]

Would some of you Vegas regulars please explain a little bit about the dealers/pits shifts in Downtown Vegas? When do you feel it is necessary limit your exposure time to any one crew, and what is your maximum play time per sitting considering a no-heat situation(of course leave immediately with heat).

I think I've read that there are swing shift people at some positions. Are these pit crew? dealers? security? Does this mean it's best not to overplay within a 12 hour period as opposed to an 8 hour period? What casinos employ this and when? Only on weekends?, only between second and third shifts and/or first and second?

In the midwest they have a parade 3 times a day at 12, 8 and 4. A parade of new dealers walk up to the pit, do some shoulder tapping, and shortly after a parade of dealers walk out. The pit seems to change shortly after, but not always all of them. I have never really noticed how this works in L.V.

Thanks,
-Felix

 

[SammyBoy]

That is a great question and I cannot wait to see the replies. I know that the places I have played (outside of LV) seem to stagger the floor people with the dealers. In other words the dealers shifts are very predictable, but the floor people seem to have very unpredictable shifts.

 

[deZerTomB]

I thought it was day shift, swing shift, night shift.

And I noticed some dealers coming on at 4am or so.

Another place around 8pm.

So maybe 4am to 12noon day shift.
Noon to 8pm swing shift (swings from day to night).
8pm to 4am night shift.

Also where penetration varies by dealer, sometimes improves significantly from 2-4am. Makes sense, dealers are tired, don't care as much, ready to go home, crowds are gone, less scrutiny from PB.

Also noticed a suit so busy doing paperwork he only looked up for cash-ins and color changes and even then just waved his hand and didn't look up most of the time. This was around 8-9am.

I doubt the suits come in at 4am, so maybe a guess 8am-4pm-midnight.

And finally from the travel channel when they go to the eye in the sky room, I only see 1 person in there and all these monitors and tape machines. Maybe from 6pm-2am they have 2. It would be nice to know when they change the tapes. This is all guesswork, but I hope it helps.

 

[BlackJackHack]

In my experience in LV, 4a-12n/12n-8p/8p-4a seems pretty standard for both dealers and PCs.

 

[Count Luckula]

One of the things that may be confusing is that there are some shops which change shifts at different hours (i.e. LVC swing at 2.) Also, during exceptionally busy times, like superbowl weekend, one place was running extended shifts. They were also so busy and understaffed, people had to wait to take out markers. You know in those situations, they can't possibly keep their eyes on everybody.