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Old 07-19-2005, 10:23 PM
Kyo Souma II Kyo Souma II is offline
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Default Re: Your new WSOP champ is a chump.

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Considering that the 2% withheld translates to approx. $120 per 1 hr dealt in the tournament...he is supposed to give more on top of that?

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This is awful math.. Even if only the dealers got 2%, which is not the case, you still have around 25k-30k man hours spent during the course of the tourney. ~250 dealers for approaching 60 hours each for the first day(s) and day 2 alone, on 15 hour shifts. I get around 45-60/hr. We all know there's no way the dealers got that much hourly.

There's still no really specific line of anything i've read that says that the dealers get that 2% either in full or as a tip.

As far as I can tell, a lot of it goes to non-dealing 'tournament staff' and pays their regular wages. Where the heck does it say anything about being a tip?

"4% of the total entry pool will be withheld for the house.
2% of the total entry pool will be withheld for tournament staff."

The word tip is notably absent.

-kyo