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Originally Posted by stinkypete
Probably a little worse than the low end of WSOP dealers.
How many WSOP dealers are there? By my rough calculation, they have about 300 tables at the WSOP (+/- 100). That's a minimum of 1000 temporary dealers they're hiring for a 6 week event. And to muddy the waters a bit, they're also hiring hundreds of temporary dealers at the Venetian for the deep stack series which takes place at the same time. And I'm pretty sure the Bellagio also runs some big tournaments as well.
It's reasonable to estimate that there are 1500 additional dealers working in Vegas during the WSOP compared to December.
By reputation, the WSOP is one of the most brutal events to work as an event dealer. I know some event dealers who have no interest at working that event and are happy to stay busy at the Wynn or Venetian for a month or two rather than deal with the WSOP.
Compare this to the Hard Rock series which just completed in South Florida. They have their regular crew working in the 40 table room, which gets busier than normal, with lots of high limit games spreading during their series. And in the tournament room, which takes place in the event center, they have maybe 100 tables (probably less). Which works out to about 300 event dealers who come into town for that series.
It should come as no surprise that the Hard Rock gets to pick only the most experienced traveling dealers for their event. Whereas, the WSOP isn't getting all of those 300 dealers, because a good amount of them are working at other Las Vegas strip rooms instead. And even if they were all at the WSOP, that would only make up about 1/3 of their staff.