1. Investigation project.
CROUPIER.
Investigation project.
PROJECT MADE BY:
PABLO ABAD ABAD.
ANA GARCÍA PROVENCIO.
PABLO DEL BARRIO GARCÍA.

2. CROUPIER AS A JOB.

3.  A croupier or dealer is someone appointed at a gambling table to assist in the conduction of the game, especially in the distribution of bets and payouts. Croupiers are typically employed by casinos.
 Originally a 'croupier' means one who stood behind a gambler, with extra reserves of cash to back him up during a gambling session. The word comes from 'croup' and it was also by analogy the person who rides a horse. Later it comes to refer to the person who was employed to collect the money from a gaming-table.
 Training methods to become a casino croupier vary from one country to another. In North America, blackjack is always the game that dealers learn first, as it is simple and popular, and when the dealer makes mistakes, they tend not to cost the casino much money. In Europe, croupiers usually learn roulette first. Complex, busy games such as craps, with complicated payout systems, etc., are usually reserved for the most competent and/or ambitious dealers

5. THE GAMES.

6. BINGO.

7. BACCARAT.

8. WHEEL OF FORTUNE

9. ROULETTE.

10. SLOTS.

11. BLACKJACK

12. CRAPS.

13. POKER.

14. THE INTERVIEW.
We´ve done an interview to Ruth, who works as croupier in “Gran Casino Madrid”. We´ve done it face to face. AND THIS IS THE RESULT!!!!

15. 1.What qualifications are needed to work as a croupier?
 The most important thing to become a croupier is to have a good education, because you have to deal with people who lose lots of money every day on th casino. Before we started working, we did a 6 month course in which we had to practice maths and be respectful and have good manners.

16. 2.Why did you choose to work as a croupier? Is it hard?
 I chose my job because I thought it was a different job. Since I was a child I liked to move things and so on and I considered myself quite qualified to move cards or pieces of the games.  I think that being croupier It´s hard, but it is also so gratificant, and especially, when you give a price to someone.

17. 3.Is it true you need to have mathematical ability?
 No, for example, I´m so bad at Maths, but I can work as croupier thanks to the before mentioned course, you get this ability. If you practice and study hard you can get this course and work as a croupier without problems.

18. 4.Have you ever seen a compulsive gambler?
 Of course, there are lots of them. They are so powerful and they don´t mind how much money they spend. For this reason, casinos have stablished rules that say people have a maximun and a minimun to spend in a game.

19. 5.How did you start working as croupier?
 I saw it when I was surfing in internet and I liked it. A person told me that I could do a test. I did it and I started working so far.

20. 6.Have you got any free days?
 Ihave one free day every 8 days working. Our timetable consists on working 8 hours a day, but we rest a quarter every hour.

21. 7.What is the biggest bet you´ve seen?
 The maximun allowed, that is around 20,000 €.

22. 8.What do you think about online casinos?
 I don´t mind about them, but I think that a usual casino is quite more stylish and exciting that playing on internet.

23. 10. What is the strangest thing that happened to you in the casino
10.What is the strangest thing that happened to you in the casino?Do you have an annecdote you can tell us?
 The strangest thing happened when a ninety year old man died playing a game.  Once, I threw the ball on the american roulette and it clashed on a customer´s head. I couldn´t stop laughing.

24. 9.Are you specialized in a particular game?
 Yes, I am specialised in blackjack, american roulette, “punto y banca” and “poker de contrapartida”.

25. 12. Have you ever seen a fake banknote
12.Have you ever seen a fake banknote? If so, how did you know it was fake?
 Yes, I´ve sawn lots of them. I knew it because of a machine.