{"id":36153,"date":"2023-08-08T04:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=36153"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:17:19","slug":"what-does-a-casino-pit-boss-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/what-does-a-casino-pit-boss-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does a Casino Pit Boss Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A casino pit boss has become a bit of a layman\u2019s term for anyone found in a suit or wearing something other than a dealer\u2019s uniform behind the casino\u2019s table games. Its earliest meaning in the 1940s and 1950s was someone who oversaw the myriad box men, floor supervisors, dealers, and often the ancillary people, like cocktail staff and security, involved in running a section of table games commonly referred to as a pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this article, we take a look at the Casino Pit boss and outline exactly what the job involves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today a pit boss\u2019s job has evolved and sometimes been replaced by technology. When they can still be found, the folks who still run entire pits or some numbers of pits are referred to as pit managers or floor managers. But just like the recessed floor areas or pits that often held table games in days past so that they could be easily viewed and attract the eye of curious gamblers, pit bosses are a dying breed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While often confused by casual gamblers with the floor people or box men who run small sections of table games or even just one crap table, a proper pit manager job will entail overseeing at least a number of these subordinate supervisors, or in some cases many of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the portrayal of pit bosses in older TV and movies as all-powerful princes of their own table game kingdoms may have had some tiny bit of truth in real life, today\u2019s pit managers are much more bureaucrats than royalty, overseeing casino complementaries, issuance of credit and markers, dealer\u2019s table assignments and breaks, and often handling guest service complaints and lapses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Floor supervisors are a step down the org chart but often also wear business attire instead of dealer uniforms and are thus conflated in the public eye with the pit managers. Other than a quick job description blurb on a name tag, telling them apart can take a lot of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But a floor person will generally be assigned to just four or possibly six games and should, in practice, always stay in that designated area. They will take your player’s card, ensure you are rated correctly on the computer, closely monitor the dealer, interact with them, and acknowledge them when they call out cash buy-ins and color-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Craps box people, or even ladder men, are supervisors one more step down the org chart. They watch just one crew of dealers on one assigned table. In the case of a box person, they sit at a craps table and closely monitor the four assigned dealers and their payouts, wagers, and speed of their game. In the case of a ladder man, they do the same but with an assigned Big Baccarat or Chemin De fer game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n