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Shill - An employee who plays on house money and helps to start and fill games.
Some card clubs and casinos use paid players to help start and maintain games. If the employee uses house money to play
in the games, they are considered a shill. Shills generally have guidelines about how they are supposed to play, and
are expected to play well even though they do not have a vested financial interest in the outcome. If they lose, the
house covers the entire amount, and if they win, the money goes into the till. In other words, they are simply an extra
body available to fill games until a live player arrives.
Shills are rarely used in poker rooms today. Almost all poker clubs now use
proposition players (props) instead of
shills. The difference between a prop and a shill is that a prop plays on their own money, whereas a shill is
bankrolled by the house. This means that a prop will have to cover their own losses, but also gets to keep anything
they win. Since most casinos do not want to be exposed to losses from their own employees, they prefer to use props
instead of shills.
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