Re: The APPT Macau: The First Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament in China!
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Tatsu: since there has been no live poker in Macau up to now, where did they get 40 dealers to work this tournament? All trained in the past 4 weeks?
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There was local trainers and one brought in from the Philippines about a month ago that were in constant contact with me about rules, procedures, and I answered questions for them. Savage Tournament's two trainers came in the week before and gave them an intense Boot Camp. Sam Quinto and Chinh Chung have both worked with me at Bay 101 and have done an OUTSTANDING job getting them ready. It was Sam's idea to bring Chinh as he speaks three dialects of Chinese.
I am really proud of the effort these dealers have put forward and said yesterday that even though many of these dealers never even knew what a royal flush was 6 weeks ago are now dealing a major tournament without many mistakes at all. Yes, they are slow but they are more concerned about not making mistakes and having a positive attitude and I applaud that!
Interestingly enough I go directly from here to Malaysia's Genting Casino where I sent two other trainers to get 50 dealers ready for another first time poker tournament at their property where we are introducing the great game of poker as well.
Matt Savage
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