Time Pots

What are "Time Pots"?

For some of the higher limit games, rather than the dealer making change and taking $4 out of every pot, the players are charged a straight fee ($8 per half hour at WSOP) that is collected every half hour.

When I played at Motor City Casino or at the Majestic, every player would put their $8 in front of them and the dealer would collect it, color it up and put it on the rake slide until a supervisor approved it.

Apparently, this is not the norm in Vegas or California casinos. Here, the players expect the dealers to just continue to deal hands once the supervisor has announced for dealers to collect time. They assume the dealer will just take the time fee out of the next pot. They seem to think that it would be a waste of time if everybody at the table has $25 chips and hundred dollar bills to have the dealer make change for $8 for each one of them. Problem is, it was announced that any dealer caught dealing time pots rather than collecting the rake could be fired. This means that we can anticipate having arguments with our players. I can still hear it, "Just DEAL! Don't worry about it!"

The only solution I can see is to tell the players (let's assume 6 players at the table) that I need $48 for time before I can deal another hand. Then I can either take $8 from each player or one player can step up and toss the $48 into the middle. Chances are a player will toss out two green $25 chips and I will break one, giving the player $2 change and put the rest on the slide until the supervisor says I can drop it. Whether or not the winner of the next pot reimburses the player for the time would not be the dealer's worry. I sure hope our Dealer Coordinators don't define that procedure as a "Time Pot" or I'll be in trouble!