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January 12, 2007, 12AM:
Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure - Atlantis Bahamas - Day 5

Final day of the event. 
 
I am burned out and tired after working a ton. 
 
The final table is going on but I have no desire to watch.  I don't know any of the players and it really isn't that exciting to watch live as you can't see their hole cards.  Nor do I watch the shit on TV so..
 
Talked to a player "Pavel" today from Eastern Europe.  I love to talk to these younger "kids" about poker.  How long they have been playing? How they got started? What limits and games they play?
 
Seems like most of them either put $50 on an account or won a freeroll and earned like $10 and ran it up.  This Pavel kid won a freeroll for $2, then turned it into $30ish.  From there he played super low limit cash games and parlayed a big chunk of it($20) in a multitable tournament and won it for like $500ish.  From there he was off to the races.  He won a seat for the Poker Stars event and cashed in 10K! Good for him.  A college student just playing on the side for fun money and saving it up for retirement.  Smart kid.
 
I rememeber the days when Daryl and I would host games in Noth Hedges(residence hall) at Montana State University.  We would earn our beer and party money.  We finally found a real poker game at the Cat's Paw and frequently went there to play.  Then the "big game" was a 4-8 Limit Hold'em game.  Back then poker wan't like it is now and our opportunities to learn and play were only amungst ourselves.
 
Back to Bahamas the last night was slower than we all thought.  The room closed down early.  Players had their going away banquet and I assume were pretty worn out after 5 days of action.  Many of them were on flights to Australia and Tunica for the other events.
 
We had a dealer that was fired for stealing.  This is a drag.  I've known the guy for a few years.  Very hard worker, put in a ton of hours and been around the industry for years(25+).  He is not allowed back to the Bahamas again and they were pursuing legal action against him as well as debating to notify his current employer in Las Vegas.
 
The problem with the whole situation stems back to the poor managment of cash and tips.  In my opinion if things were done more professionally in regards to securing all tips and monies then it would be less likely or easy for anyone to consider pocketing anything.  Also, the managment was not 100% clear with tipping policies.  We were told that we were pooling all tips.  But what happened was a player in a cash game won a big pot, he tipped X amount for all dealers and then gave him X amount.  He at 1st informed the player that they have to pool the tips and could not except it.  The player said he already took care of everyone and that this is just for you.  This left the door wide open for tempation and justification.  I am not saying what he did was right and I'm honestly shocked and upset that he would pocket this at the table in front of cameras, another dealer and a floor person.  I think though in our 1st staff meeting the managment could have been crystal clear with all of us saying, NO PERSONAL TIPS can ever be excepted under any circimstances and anyone caught excepting or pocketing any tips for any reason will be severly punished.  What they did say was, "we are pooling all dealer tips".  They also did not put our policies on paper and distrubute them.  So there is a lot of room for discrepency if there is legal action to be taken.  I guess I'm unfairly blaming a lot of this on our management team but I feel in situations like this it stems from above.  If the room had been really organized, had enough floormen and the Bahamian staff was educated enough to know what to look for the tempation would be eliminated as you can feel the heat of being watched.  The cash game area was unorganized with no clear hiarchy set in place nor experienced staff.  I mean, if I were a theif, or even thinking about trying to be one, this would have been a perfect opportunity to take advantage of the situation.  Like a friend once told me, "You lock things in a safe to keep and honest man honest."
 
All in all the tournament ran extremely well and cash games could have used a bit of improvment.  I have a few suggestions of improvment for the guy running the whole room but think I will keep them to myself.  I find that when I do open my mouth most people in these positions take offense to my constructive critisism.  Almost like they take it as an insult which ends up just hurting me in the end.  Sad it has to be this way but I've lost enough jobs trying to help the team only to be looked at as being "unappreciative" and "complaining".

Last Update: January 12, 2007, 1:22AM


2 Comments


Come on now, what about the front table by the entryway? What was it, a $.50/$1.00 game? I remember Jesse taking me there to play some cards where I bought in for $4 bucks. Funny how things change huh...

Posted by nbouvet10 on January 12, 2007, 11:36PM


Thanks for the quick little look back.......ahhh the memories!

Posted by darylsuds on January 12, 2007, 11:41AM


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