The World Series of Poker has begun. The main event takes place in late June, I think. For now it's all $1500 buy-in tourneys (the main event is $10k). One of my bosses, better known as Boss 4x, is flying out to enter the $1500 NL tourney on June 22. I'm jealous! Even if he doesn't win, he still gets to be involved, to see the action, to see the big players, the famous faces, the circus that will be the Rio and Binions for the next month. The first $1500 event was expected to draw about 1000 people and take a day and a half. Instead they had over 2000, and it took two full days. They're going to have to jimmy the schedule to fit everything in. It's even more complicated when you factor in the limited number of decent dealers in town. Poker is too high stakes to have a clueless dealer at tournaments this big. With an expected 8k or more people in the main event, you'll have to have at least 400 dealers, and then you need more for the side games. It's amazing! I think someone could make a LOT of money if they invented a reliable robotic dealer for Texas Holdem.