Learn to Deal Poker: The Complete Guide

Everything it takes to deal poker professionally, start to finish — taught by a working dealer and trainer, built from real course footage and thousands of real corrections made to real students in live training classes. Not a rulebook summary. The actual mechanics, the actual judgment calls, and the actual mistakes almost everyone makes while learning them.

Work through the modules in order if you’re starting from zero, or jump straight to whatever you need to fix. Every lesson ends with the specific things students most commonly get wrong on that exact topic, pulled from real training-class correction logs — so you can skip straight past the mistakes that would otherwise cost you weeks of bad habits.

1. Shuffling, Pitching & Chip Mechanics

   The physical foundation: wash, riffle, box, and cut the deck; pitch cards cleanly and handle it when a pitch goes wrong; cut and handle chips the way surveillance and the floor expect.

   How to Shuffle Cards The Poker Pitch How to Cut Chips How to Handle Chips

2. Bank, Buy-Ins & Color-Ups

   Working the bank, keeping it clean, handling buy-ins, and doing cheque change / color-ups without slowing the table down.

   How to Work a Poker Bank Poker Buy-Ins Color-Ups & Cheque Change How to Do a Bank Fill

3. Hand Rankings & Core Procedures

   Hand rankings cold, bringing in the flop/turn/river correctly, counting the stub, using the all-in button, and bomb pot / quartering procedures.

   Poker Hand Rankings Bringing In the Flop, Turn & River Counting the Stub & the All-In Button Bomb Pots & Quartering

4. Side Pots & Multi-Way All-Ins

   The single most error-prone moment at the table — building the math, placing the chips, and getting showdown order right when more than one player is all-in.

   How to Build Side Pots The Shortcut for Big Multi-Way All-Ins

   Try the side pot calculator to check your math.

5. Mixed Games: Omaha, Stud & Lowball

   PLO, Big O, stud variants, and triple draw — the extra rules and extra attention these games demand from a dealer.

   Dealing Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo The Pot-Limit Betting Formula Dealing Seven-Card Stud & Razz Dealing Triple Draw & Lowball

6. Audition Prep & Working the Floor

   What a real audition looks like, how to prepare for one, and the floor-communication habits that separate a hired dealer from a nervous one.

   How to Prepare for a Poker Dealer Audition Working the Floor & Handling Mistakes