World
Poker Open - Day 16
So
many people and so much effort goes into
the production of this tournament. Some
get paid extra and some just have to work
extra. Take the maintenance staff for
example. Calls to their dept. had to have
increased 100 fold. Setting up the tables,
fixing the slightly broken ones, making
sure the microphones work in only this
section and not that.
Porters
work extra hard too. You think pokers
players are neat and tidy? It's a constant
job of emptying the trash bins in the
upstairs room. Not to mention picking
up all the empty bottles and glasses,
unused racks, sandwich wrappers and on
and on. Ever clean up under a poker table
after a game that had gone for some time
and then broke?
Our
cage people have just been outstanding.
Nova on days and Jeff at night lead a
marvelous group. From what I understand
they have both the upstairs cage and the
main cage downstairs to manage. Must be
like running a tournament with tables
in two separate areas. Not very easy to
do. Yet every day I walk by the cage and
everyone there has a smile and a pleasant
attitude to go with it.
I
really think the last job I want is that
of poker room manager of either the two
poker rooms here during this tournament.
Their hours are long and often unappreciated.
Every department has problems that these
two must orchestrate a solution. The Gold
Strike's Ronald (Pepper) Munsey and the
Horseshoe's Ken Lambert Jr are to be commended
for a monstrous job well done. Pepper
and his wife Rita have turned the Frankenstein
in the form of payroll into a piece of
cake. I know it wasn't easy. Kenny told
me yesterday the Horseshoe's handles over
200 shuttles, mostly from the airport
to here. Although I imagine Beale Street
has been a destination a time or two.
I wish I had a dollar for every problem
these two managers have had to tackle
concerning either their respective rooms
or the WPO. I bet I'd have enough to enter
one of our tournaments with it.
Not
to be forgotten is Teresa Sommerfeld.
This lady is a dream. Problem with a room?
She's got it handled. Without her the
aspirin consumption of everyone else goes
way up. Just thought I'd clue you in on
who and what some people behind the scenes
do in order to make this one of the best
run and soon to be the number one poker
tournament in the world.
Who's
your pick to win the Championship Event?
I am going to talk to our director of
everything Bill Hicks and see if I can't
wiggle out some worthwhile prize to the
winner. Stay tuned.
Gary (G-man) Philips
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