I have had a handful of jobs in my lifetime and dealing the WSOP Events is nothing like any of them, but dealing WSOP cash games is a lot like them... only I tend to get paid a little bit better.
Let me explain why! With every job you seem to see a lot of blaming going around and hardly see any real owning of problems, that all happens in live. With every job there seems to be a lot of people you can enjoy the company of and some you just can't stand, also happens in live. And with every job there seems to be those days where you just can't wait until it is all over, and that also happens in live.
A lot of people complain about dealing cash, and I guess this is going to make me one of those... but to be honest I am more explaining the fact that I love dealing tournaments so much better than live. Cash is not so bad as to say I hate it or wouldn't do it, but it is just not the same.
This is a typical day for me if I am doing tournaments....
1. Start at 6:30, deal a handful of hands and then players go on dinner break
2. Do 2-3 tables while the players are still on break and get paid for it
3. Deal for most if not the rest of the day to clear cut guidelines and not to mention the same game.
See... simple and also to me, fun.
Here is my day in live....
1. Get my table assignment
2. First table
- Count my well, which is a process that you get yelled at if not done quick enough.
- My pitch is generally not come into full gear from the first push so I may flip over a card during the entire time I am there and may get yelled at for that ( from the players )
3. Second table
- Ask for a time rake, in which all the players want to take out of the first pot. At first we were not allowed to take out of the first pot, now apparently we are... so players are a lot more nice about it, but still like to say smart comments from time to time.
4. Deal many times over, generally with one break in btwn, to multiple games with players wanting to change or alter multiple policies you have come to know. And of course most alterations are allowed, since the players run the game, the house does not.
- Now, since the players run the show generally, when they get out of line on a rule and you try to fix it they get snappy because.... well, they normally make the rules around those parts and don't want you to have any say.
5. Cash in my money and have worked 50 times harder than i would have dealing tournaments and made typically less money.
On the other side of all this... you get to deal a ton of different games, and mixing it up is fun for me. I am not the guy that likes to do the same thing over and over again. Also, you do meet a lot of really great people that never complain and are a lot less stressed than in a tournament. And you get to have cash in your pocket right away instead of waiting and guessing how much you are getting paid for that day.
So all in all, you have those players you enjoy dealing to and those that you wish would let you do your job and not jump on you for silly little things. You also have so many types of games and types of limits that it is too hard to come up with stringent guidelines to follow, as some players or tables just like a different brand of whatever game they are playing. And, you wish there was overall less to worry about without people jumping on you for, but that is the way with any job really.
If anyone happens to read this next year as a first timer, take this as a possible means to enjoy yourself a little more at the tables.... Be one of those people that take their job too seriously. Be like one of those hall monitors from back in the days at school that are just way too uptight. Seriously, that sounds odd but that is what the players want, or at least it seems to me. They want a dealer that knows what he is doing, and will fix things when it goes wrong not just settle for some player at the table's answer to the right decision. I tend to be like a robot and as soon as a player does something wrong ( that is not debatable, of course ), I snap at them to fix it and don't take no for an answer... as soon as you are done doing that they know you got this and they don't have to worry about watching over you ( even if they maybe still do ).
I am going to go get ready for work now and hopefully have a relaxing day of doing tournaments, since I have done cash 4 out of the last 5 nights.
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