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In the game of poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
, the tournament director is the individual charged with running the poker tournament
Poker tournament

A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time....
. The job encompasses many roles, the most public of which is typically announcing the phrase "shuffle up and deal!" at the beginning of the day.

Additionally, tournament directors perform such other tasks as adjudicating disputes between dealers and players and also among the players themselves. Tournament directors are (generally) employees of the casino
Casino

A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions....
 that the tournament is being hosted at, although this varies.






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In the game of poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
, the tournament director is the individual charged with running the poker tournament
Poker tournament

A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time....
. The job encompasses many roles, the most public of which is typically announcing the phrase "shuffle up and deal!" at the beginning of the day.

Additionally, tournament directors perform such other tasks as adjudicating disputes between dealers and players and also among the players themselves. Tournament directors are (generally) employees of the casino
Casino

A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions....
 that the tournament is being hosted at, although this varies. For example, Matt Savage
Matt Savage (poker)

Matt Savage is an United States poker tournament director . He has officiated at a number of televised poker and gambling events, including the World Series of Poker , Bay 101 Shooting Star stop on the World Poker Tour, Poker Dome Challenge and King of Vegas....
 has appeared at various made-for-tv tournaments such as "King of Vegas
King of Vegas

King of Vegas is a gambling series that first aired on Spike TV in the United States on January 17, 2006. It was hosted by boxing commentator Max Kellerman and co-hosted by renowned handicapper Wayne Allyn Root, who gave color commentary and his odds-on favorites for each game....
", which do not take place at his place of employment.

Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson (poker director)

Robert Thompson is a Las Vegas, Nevada poker official. He served as the tournament director on Celebrity Poker Showdown. Phil Gordon said on one broadcast that Thompson is one of the best tournament directors in Las Vegas....
 is another famous tournament director who has appeared on Bravo
Bravo (television network)

Bravo is a cable television network owned by NBC Universal. It is currently seen in more than 80 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film, drama, and the performing arts when it launched by Cablevision as an advertisement-free network in December 1980....
's Celebrity Poker Showdown
Celebrity Poker Showdown

Celebrity Poker Showdown is a celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo . It was a limited-run series of five celebrities playing poker....
 ever since season one. Robert is known for saying the famous words of "Shuffle Up and Deal" occasionally throughout each episode of the show. Robert would also help out when some of the players wanted to make a bet or a raise, assuring that the proper amount of chips were put out.