The Other Side of the Table

Something about the Author

Mr. Hector L. Cintron, the author of the "Other Side of the Table", was born in the eastern town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico. He started in the Casino Business in 1963 as a Craps dealer. In 1966, he was promoted to Casino Supervisor and kept his way up in the Casino Industry until reaching high executive positions around the world.

In 1978 he was hired by Resorts International as a Pit Boss in its new and first Casino in Atlantic City, position that he held for a couple of years, Afterwards, he made a move right in the same area to Playboy Casino Hotel, which offered him a better position. He worked at that Casino until 1985 when he was hired as Director of Casino Operations at El San Juan Hotel and Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico where he held the responsibility to organize and run the entire casino operation.

In 1990, he was offered the opportunity to go to the island of Aruba in the Caribbean, to set up a casino operation for the Hyatt Aruba Resorts and Casino. Mr. Hector L. Cintron, during his 40 years in the Casino Business, has occupied every managerial position within a casino operation.

This enormous casino experience gives Mr. Cintron the necessary credentials to write anything concerning the functioning of the Casino Business with an undisputable credibility, and above all, about all kinds of games played at a casino.

At the time of writing this book, Mr. Cintron is retired from the industry but, his vast knowledge of what's going on within the casino table games will give you, the reader, and easy way to understand the basics of the gaming cycle, not only from the casinos insides, but from the out's of the player, in this case, yourself.

G. Martnez