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Toughest
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I would almost
rather deal to a line up of Puggy Pearson, Davy Singer, Stu Unger,
Sarge Ferris, Sam Angel, Jimmy Casella and Crazy Kid (notice I said
ALMOST) then have the job as "Dealer Coordinator"
(DC). WSOP live game DC Dan Carlson has to have the toughest job in
poker.
Dan has rose
through the ranks as "underground" dealer in Colorado to Assistant
manager with Harrahs at the 2006 WSOP. Dan is also a circuit dealer
for the WPT, the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Showdown,
which is a Caribbean gig. (Imagine the perks... poor guy!) That has
to be better then being stuck dealing $2 & $4 limit in some smoked
filled corner at the El Cortez! |
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Dan Carlson |
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Dealer Luci High and Dan Carlson |
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All this in
four short years. Dan accepted the position of DC not only for the
extra money (well deserved, I might add) but to help his resume. He
is now a "Triple threat", dealer, floor manager and now a DC. Dan
Carlson's fellow DCs, Phil Miller and "Guppy" Ogasawara, head DC are
the "true babysitters" in a large cardroom, what with setting the
line up and re-setting when a game breaks or a new one starts. They
also have to make sure the dealers come off their breaks on time
otherwise the last dealer to be pushed may only get a five minute
break and very often it takes that long just to walk to the
restroom! They also have to adjust the line-up when a dealer is late
to work or is a no show! Then there are the times when a dealer
becomes ill on shift, "Funny" Dan stated "How a dealer can suddenly
become sick after he or she sees the line-up or type game they are
going into next".
As far as this
reporter is concerned, they can't pay the DCs enough, believe I
know! I've held every position in a card room but had no more then
ten tables to contend with, not the hundreds at Foxwood's, some of
the massive Southern California cardrooms or the WSOP. However, all
in all, it is probably better being a DC then dealing to
aforementioned line-up.
Pictured above
with Dan is the preverbal "Dealer at his hip"
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Final results |
$2,000 No-Limit
Holdem |
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Number of Entries 1,919 |
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1st Place |
Mark Vos |
$803,274 |
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2nd Place |
Nam Le |
$401,647 |
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3rd Place |
John Reiss Jr. |
$209,555 |
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4th Place |
Thomas Hunt
III |
$160,659 |
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5th Place |
Willard Chang |
$136,211 |
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6th Place |
Kevin Peterson |
$115,255 |
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7th Place |
Vanessa Selbst |
$101,285 |
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8th Place |
David Wells |
$87,315 |
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9th Place |
Juan Carlos
Mortensen |
$73,344 |
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