casino Adjara
Glyn Thomas talks to Ian Livingstone, Managing Director of Casino Adjara in Tbilisi, Georgia
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an, how did you get into the industry and what path has lead to your current position?
It’s a bit of a long story. Back in 1977 I was working in my home town Manchester, UK, for a local transport company as a trainee manager and I just happened to notice an advertisement in the jobs section of a local newspaper for experienced Roulette and Blackjack dealers in a casino. I called, explaining that I had never even been to a casino before, but I was interested in trying my hand. Fortunately, they had just started a training school and after being accepted at the interview, I started a week later as a trainee dealer at the then Pleasurama Ltd owned Soames Casino. I remember getting home and explaining to my mother and father about the sudden change in my career path and they were absolutely appalled that their son and I quote “was going to work in a den of iniquity”. Of course years later, they agreed it was the best thing I have ever done as they came to visit me in various wonderful places around the world that I later found myself working in.
After spending two years dealing in a very busy casino in Manchester and having learnt to deal American Roulette, Blackjack, Craps and Punto- Banco (now mistakenly called Baccarat ) and recently promoted to Inspector, I set off to South Africa to open Sun City Casino. Unbeknown to me, this was the start of international travel that would span the next 30 years.
One of the great things about the gaming industry,
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