Start Me Up!

Tomorrow is orientation, finally.  The waiting, as Tom Petty would say, is the hardest part.  While I've been waiting for this whole deal to start, I've been trying to keep busy.  Managed to finish blackjack class and moved on to learning craps.  I thought that would be a good idea, but it turns out there's a lot to remember in dealing craps, especially in terms of mathematics and formulas to make life easier for payoffs.  There are a lot of formulas.  A LOT.  After a couple of days of learning the mechanics of dealing craps we moved on to learning these formulas, and I quickly realized that attempting to learn all of that information might compromise my need to concentrate on remembering all the stuff I need to for poker, so I throttled back on that.  At least the waiting is over now.

Time to put the penguin suit on and get to work!

All-In!

So after 5 grueling weeks of some of the most intense instruction I've had to go through, I have accomplished that which I set out to do; I am officially a World Series of Poker dealer.

I have to give a big "thank you" to Kim Smith, Jimmy Sims and Kate Owens for their patience and ability to convey so much information to so many in such a short amount of time.  I had underestimated how much there is to know to be a dealer in the WSOP and they were able to give us everything we needed to succeed.

So now I wait until the festivities start!  I'm just anxious to get back to work.  I've been unemployed now for nearly 6 months, and it's driving me insane.

Going to take care of some logistics early next week and then just watching the days go by until I can get to it!