More Question of the Day Shake-your-heads

Today's really tough question to be answered by LVA:

Can you give a Bio on Liberace?

Before that:

Are there any restaurants in the area that serve organic or all-natural meals? :

Both of these and the vast majority of Q of D can easily be found through the hundreds of Google entries given answering these very things.

Now, I'll admit there are a bit of sour grapes in this message. For the past SEVEN YEARS, I have entered a question that is not available to public knowledge and would actually require a little investigation other than turning on a computer to a search engine. For seven years: nothing, nada, zero response. Here's my question:

Every year at the World Series of Poker, there are hundreds of dealers hired for the event. Competing properties do not allow their dealers to moonlight for Caesar's Corp, and in addition to the WSOP, many other properties add many extra poker events along with their regular poker hours. The question is where does Caesar's get all these dealers? How much are they paid, where do they stay? Just how is this massive event worked out so apparently effortlessly by management that all the dealers are there right on time and at the right place, and are skilled at what they do?

I think this is a genuine question that I believe readers would find interesting. Granted, it would require a little more research than, "Where's a good Sushi restaurant on the Strip?"

I've asked many other members about this, who have also been snubbed or ignored with questions that deal with some "inside" Las Vegas information. Some told me that whoever the panel or person is that runs this column, simiply dials in an answer to a question they, themselves, have made up...sort of Jeopardy in the LVA. Some say this is reinforced by the fact that the person submitting the question is never revealed.

Okay, I apologize for the flame-style entry here, and considering tomorrow's question actually does have a bit of of insider info to it, because we all want to know what the O'Shea's leprechaun will be up to next; I suppose I'll simply just try again next year (eight and counting).

Did you know Liberace's first name was Wladziu?

Maybe they are all Liberace's cousins, ............................. just sayin'.


Rick

A lot of them come from other Caesars owned properties. They have something like 40 casinos. Most of those casios have poker rooms. And dealers working there. They send some of their staff to Vegas during the WSOP. I am pretty sure they go for a few weeks and come back and that property sends other dealers out.

They are probably housing them at lower end properties in Vegas. It does not cost them any extra money to put them there and I doubt if IP has ever been at 100% capacity. They are not being put up in suites at Caesars.

A friend of a friend was a poker dealer at the Horseshoe in Tunica and was let go a few years ago. She has gone out for the last couple of WSOP's to deal. She is probably not the only unemployed poker dealer in the world, either

Everyone knows that.

Not everyone knows that.

That was KarenTN's response to the same question on 5/25/11. I think you should start doing your submissions Quarterly and really light a fire under those QOD people.

Yes, we all know and I mean everybody....

Well, not sure how far LVA goes to actually make up questions, but sometimes it reminds me of the Sunday supplement Parade: in their Q&A on the inside cover, the questions (which actually have a name and city attached, fwiw) almost always ask what so and so is doing nowadays, and that celebrity just happens to have a movie coming out that week, or a book just written, or a guest appearance on a tv show that week.
I'm not quite the curmudgeon that Jon is (howya doin' buddy?) but I myself get annoyed at the softballs I see in the QOD that easily can be answered thru a Google search.

fredo

I've never really taken the position that my mere status as a member of this forum entitles me to rudely demand that Huntington Press research arcane topics of peculiar interest to me, and complain loudly and publicly when it elects not to.

Mine's apparently not a universal view.