Lol. So you're warning people about these "shill" players because many years ago you played poker in Las Vegas twice and some players joined and played passively. And your "connected" buddy told you so. Mmmhhhhmmm.
HELP ME - GUIDE ME THROUGH CASINOS
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Lol. So you're warning people about these "shill" players because many years ago you played poker in Las Vegas twice and some players joined and played passively. And your "connected" buddy told you so. Mmmhhhhmmm.
I have played hundreds of times in poker games in Vegas and elsewhere. Most of my playing history in smaller poker rooms ended around 20 years ago. After that I usually played in bigger poker rooms. Shills and prop players were very commonly in evidence in the poker games in the smaller poker rooms 20 and 30 and 40 years ago [ generally less than 5 poker tables ] to keep poker games going when they became short handed , often late at night or when the room first opened in the morning .
A proposition [ prop ] player plays with his own money and is told to enter a short handed game at the poker room managers direction. He is an employee of the casino and is paid by the casino . Any wins or losses were footed by the prop player . This would often include poker dealers and floormen who were not dealing at that time.
A shill player was also a poker room employee but they played with house money and the casino takes any losses or wins. These players usually play very carefully.
Shills and prop players as far as I was concerned were pretty much the same thing and once they got in the games it meant that it was time to leave the game since the action had dried up.
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Whether the rules have changed I have no idea. But these players are probably near extinct today since almost all poker in casinos is now played in bigger rooms, often with players on waiting lists, and most all of the small poker rooms in lower- end casinos have been closed for years. So the need for shills and props is very little.
Just don't.
Gambling is NOT a good thing. Highly addictive, especially if you wiin your first time out. The consequences of it have ruined so many lives, families and can easily ruin your life.
You may as well try fentanyl, meth or crack. You'll get a better high and your life going downhill will be faster.
Just don't start. Please. I have lost loved ones to gambling. Metaphorically, and physically through suicide. A friend of mine was a "Host" at Casino Rama for mid-level gamblers. He simply couldn't live with himself over what his direct Manager and Management policies required him to do to squeeze out every last dime out of players. About the same level of human indifference as Indian/Nigerian phone scammers have for emptying a lonely old man's life savings.
