You will be praying in front these people in a matter of days
No, they're not lined up to attend the next Tony Robbins seminar. They're the new blackjack dealers coming to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
They had orientation Monday -- about 500 of them, I'm told -- and they're the folks who'll you'll be tipping and who you'll be rooting for to draw that facecard when they have a 6 and just turned over a 10 already. (No word if on their first day they all shouted WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!)
So learn their faces. Now. Right after you bookmark this blog.
In other news, the Seminoles are close to revealing their BJ rules -- I'm thinking they'll be pretty normal, considering there are nearby cruise ships that still stick on soft 17, offer surrender, etc. -- and, as I've said, as soon as I know, you'll know.
The Seminoles have targeted late June for blackjack's debut.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
