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A croupier is the person who takes and pays out bets at a Gambling table, often in a Casino . The croupier is standing in for the house but usually has no personal stake in the game. Games that commonly use croupiers are Blackjack , Roulette , Baccarat and Craps .

The word may also be used to refer to the person who sits as assistant chairman at the lower end of the table at a dinner party.

The modern usage derives from Old French, where it referred to the hindmost person of two riding the same horse. The word Croup referred to the rump of a quadruped; a person who rides behind another person on a horse is seated on the animal's rump, hence the name.