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Originally Posted by macktyson
Two biggest grips with your summer tournaments are :
1. Your dealers, some are outright horrendous.
2. Length of time to enter a tournament, cut it down a couple levels.
Agree on #2
With all due respect to Chris and his staff, they made substantial improvements last year over the previous summer. I had an O8 dealer that year that I do not believe had ever SEEN a poker table much less dealt, and certainly had never dealt a split-pot game. Better than five minutes into the first level, she was still checking paperwork and handing out chopsticks...
I think we saw fewer than five hands in the first level. It was horribad. Fortunately, the staff were willing to listen to players who went up to them and I do not believe she was even still around by level three...
Dealers in the Seniors event last year were generally competent...a few that should perhaps have been downstairs in a pit game or anywhere but poker, but they were the exception, not the norm...
One thing you will find with Chris is that, as this thread evidences again this year, he is one of the few TD's who is proactive at soliciting suggestions from players and will actually LISTEN to them. This was driven home to me last year when he sought me out on a break to discuss a few contentious issues that had arisen here and on Twitter. While we disagree, it was social and professional on his part...