2012 WSOP Dates Released in Dealer Training Ad

The 2012 WSOP date have been announced, but not exactly in a way that you would normally expect.  Yesterday, the WSOP posted a job announcement on their twitter looking for poker dealers for the 2012 WSOP.  In that ad, the dates for the event were listed.

WSOP dates have been released.

According to the job ad, the 2012 WSOP will be held from May 31st, 2012 through July 20th, 2012.  A schedule for the event has not been released as of yet, nor has there been any type of announcement regarding whether the November Nine concept will be used once again.

The WSOP is also doing something a bit different this year.  For those wanting to deal at the 2012 World Series of Poker, Caesars is offering a dealer academy for those wanting to work the event this summer.

The academy is broken up into two parts.  First, dealers can be trained on how to deal in Texas Hold’em games for a fee of $600.  The sessions are 5 hours long and look to run about 18 days in length.  Once a dealer has completed the NL Hold’em academy, they can register for the “Advanced” academy where they can learn to deal non-Hold’em games.  This academy costs $300 and dealers must have completed the NL Hold’em portion.

Now, we realize that $900 is a bit steep for many to pay for training, but the WSOP does offer full reimbursement to dealers that work at least 40 hours during the 2012 WSOP.

This academy should help the WSOP to resolve issues that sometimes arise due to not being able to find enough suitable dealer candidates.  In addition, it may help to resolve certain player complaints from last year’s WSOP.  There were many complaints over the quality of the dealers, not just in the non-Hold’em games, but also in the standard Hold’em games.

As stated earlier, a schedule for the 2012 WSOP has yet to be released.  We will provide that once it becomes available.