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Originally Posted by Kali2
Mostly about the brand new dealers. (I had one who mentioned it was his very first day dealing anywhere - couldn't they have at least brought him in a week earlier?). I don't think I have played anywhere this week that someone hasn't mentioned it. I suspect PH will have the highest percentage of players that play one tournament and do not return.
Such a waste of an incredible schedule. The best advice might be to scale down to what can be handled professionally.
I do everything from restarts to the 2PM Deepstack at the WSOP. Seems like a lot of the incredibly bad dealers from the first 2 weeks got weeded out for the most part [Yeah, still some awful ones but not as populated now]. However, many of us experienced dealers hear the stories all the time about how badly organized and ran PH is. One of the few dealers I know that is really good who works there does only cash and avoids the poorly ran zoo. I have refused numerous offers to go there part time because of its reputation. Sad, since I'm a hardcore workaholic and would love a little extra money but I can't justify killing myself physically and also dealing with management headaches. Hope they can turn it around one day.
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Originally Posted by LarryHoover
Thanks for posting this. I know you've been around for a while so you probably aren't shilling. I planned on playing the 125k plo8 Wednesday for my first time at PH but was getting pretty discouraged reading this thread
I wouldn't sweat it too much. As long as the dealer can competently gives you 4 cards, you may just need additional player involvement to keep it running smoothly. O8 is still one of my weaker games but it can be overwhelming for new dealers, especially if you have more than 2 players flipping over their hands and expect the dealer to be able to instantly read the winners at first glance. Don't be afraid to table captain it a little if you sense the dealer is new. When players showdown their hand, try to emphasize the cards you are using. Hopefully, like the WSOP, PH will try to use their more experienced dealers for these type of tournaments but the worst thing a player can do in this spot is jump down the dealer's throat.
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Originally Posted by AllInNTheDark
They have some good floor (shout out to Roz) and good dealers (shout out to Kermit), but the bad dealers and lack of internal communication/cohesion make it so much less than it could be.
My biggest complaints this year:
* Near the end of day 1A of $600 event there are 18 left at like 11 pm. They make us play 6 to a table on 3 tables "in case someone else registers." So having their late reg. open crazy late until midnight or w/e is compounded by a "just in case" mentality that defers to a potential new entrant, not the 18 current entrants.
* Dealer exposes one of my cards (an Ace, would have had AA58)... then next hand deals me one literally on the rail (even though I'm right next to him). I asked dealer to pay attention and he had a bit of an attitude about it.
* Get down to two tables in the private back room. They decide to move us out to the main area, where it's dark and noisy. On top of that, the tables they put us at had a raised rail, almost like a craps table, which made it awkward to look at and protect cards, etc. Before they moved us, several of us expressed that we preferred to stay in the back area, and I didn't hear anyone who agreed/wanted to move to main area.
* When we were down to 3 and then 2 tables, they redrew for tables/seats, but didn't redraw for the game (it was half PLO, half PLO8). They just started with PLO, "because the event started with PLO." Seriously, WTF?
Playing 3 tables of 6 players because of late reg is just incompetent and lazy management. Realistically, considering how late it is in the tournament, forcing players to play shorthanded is completely unnecessary. They should combine the tables to 9-handed [I'm assuming it's a 9 handed tournament at this point] and keep one table with a dealer open in case they need to start it back up due to a late registrant and move players from those two tables to balance it out.
Last edited by Phil9; 07-04-2017 at 09:54 AM.