Elijah McBride’s fingers dashed throughout a half-moon-shaped desk on the entrance to Live! Casino Pittsburgh’s playing ground, stacking yellow, pink, white and black chips atop the maroon felt cloth.
McBride, 21, of Greensburg, one of many Hempfield on line casino’s latest desk video games sellers, donned a grey, collared shirt accented by a shiny pink placket and cuffs of the identical vibrant coloration.
He swiftly distributed shuffled playing cards from a card shoe to 4 keen blackjack gamers, the faint scent of cigarette smoke, the chime of close by slot machines and the fluorescent glow of televisions filling the air round them.
The on line casino ground was quieter on this Monday evening than McBride has grown accustomed to in his two months of working half time as a supplier assigned to the swing shift.