Subject: World Poker Open - Day 16 From: lvdlrs Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2002 11:45 AM Message-ID: <3C4C8EBA.809576DF@midsouth.rr.com> 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 maintanance 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 peasant 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 tourneaments 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 comsumption 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 tournemant 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