Half and Half Split

Last night was the night I dealt to what seemed like an endless slew of well-known pro's, in the Omaha Hi-Low/Stud Hi-Low 8/b tournament. It all started with Amnon Fillipi, who thankfully helped me out by letting me know exactly what the levels were for both games as I could not find my structure sheet anywhere. Thankfully, soon after a Floor Supervisor came over and gave me one where I placed on my open 8 seat... later when the levels would change again I again could not find my sheet; this time it was because Brandon Cantu was sitting on it, as he occupied the 8 seat.

From there I went on to deal to Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, Chris Ferguson, David Slansky, Chino Rheem, Jennifer Harman, Bart Hanson, Bryan Devonshire, The Grinder, John Cernuto and others.

The highlights from that were...

I managed to cripple and knock out Daniel Negreanu on consecutive hands, and his commentary during the hand in which he was crippled was hilarious. As soon as I did knock him out, during Omaha 8 a giant crowd railing him behind the ropes left. I had Gavin Smith stick around and help me do my race off and bet Dutch Boyd 1k on who would get the higher card. Talked about being a non-believer of God with Chris Ferguson, David Slansky and Ralph Perry... and heard them discuss a prop bet on percentage of people polled having no religious affiliation at 30% over/under. Heard David Singer and Gavin Smith get into a verbal war with each other over Gavin Smith calling David a "Rule Monger" on PokerRoad Radio. Dealt some sick sick hands to The Grinder as he nearly doubled while I was there. Heard Bryan Devonshire feel real uncomfortable when Bart Hanson ask him what happened Ali Nejad, the previous host to PokerRoad Radio. Heard Daniel Negreanu and Chris Redlock discuss a 5k last longer bet, as both were short stacked at the time ( Daniel lost that obviously ). And when Chris Ferguson criticized our little signs, on the table, that indicate which game we are on... I jokingly criticized him back when I said " Well, are you not on the Advisory Board for the WSOP? You should probably do something bout that!".

I was so excited to finally deal something besides Hold 'Em, it just bores me. Stud 8 and Omaha 8, there is always something to do and it is more exciting as there is generally always action until showdown. Today is the Pot-Limit Omaha 8/B, that may be the most complex game to deal overall, so I hope I can get in the box and deal a couple of those downs.

I got my check yesterday and I was very surprised with the amount, on the negative side not positive. It was not a bad check, is that I was foolish enough to listen to the rumors from other dealers that we were going to be paid a ridiculous more per down than it really was.... oh well, that is life.