[bigfishead]

Nice to see you know so much.

There is no such thing as a concierge in poker rooms. "Brush", "Floorman", "boardperson", "chiprunner", "dealer", "tournament director", those are the common positions in a poker room.

California is one of the BEST places to deal. There are a few Southern Cal poker rooms with a lousy reputation for dealing only because of the pukes you deal too in the higher limit games. But overall Dealers in California do quite well. LV has gotten alot better thanks to the boom. Still a shiathole place to live, but if you get in one of maybe 3-4 places in LV to deal, (requires a fair amount of experience), you can do pretty well. You need to be able to handle the presure of some extremely large games with over 1 million on the table, but if you can then it is possible to do well once the players get to know you. But one also doesnt have to deal those games every single day. In fact in my experience the "smaller" huge games(like 200-400 plo) get more total jerks than the biggest games.

Tunica is also very good, but that is changing slowly but surely. More than likely Tunica will be avg at best within a year. But it is extremely low cost of living.

Florida, with the smallest games (2-2 limit holdem) thanks to some state laws can be EXTREMELY good to deal.

Why would someone want to deal? Well why would someone want to become a mechanic? The poker business can in fact be highly rewarding financially.

Best wishes