Subject: Re: What's With Nick Behnen?
Date: 28 Jun 2001 21:26:00 GMT
From: rthom15733@aol.com (RThom15733)
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Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker

I'm going to make this short. I was a little angry when I wrote my original
post. I generally don't post unless I think it's important or somebody has the
facts wrong.

To answer your questions, the evidence is in, as everybody knows how Becky
distributed the money. Most of the remaining 1 1/2 % went to her regular
employees. People like valet parkers, a cook ($800) who is Nick and Benny's
favorite, countroom, cage cashiers and supervisors, security, buffet personnel,
etc. A total of 600 plus regular Horseshoe employee's were given a piece of the
remaining 1 1/2. This also includes $2000 bonuses for department heads. My
father and sister were each given a toke envelope for $2000. Myself, Tom Elias,
Tom Albert and Carol Trimble were each given a toke envelope for $1750. Total
paid out for "immediate tournament personnel" was between $30,000 & $40,000,
out of $274,000. (Refer to Linda Johnson's post about her conversation she had
with Becky Behnun, in which the wording "immediate tournament personnel was
used"). All of us worked 350 hours or more in a 30 day period. We were paid a
flat salary, which didn't include overtime. This is not adequate compensation
for the amount of work. Hell, the brush people made almost as much as we did!

I don't have a problem with other employee's receiving a piece of the pie so to
speak, but they surely shouldn't receive the majority of the money. It
definitely wasn't distributed based on what they contributed to the actual
tournament itself or based on job responsibilities. If the Behnun family wants
to give bonuses to regular employee's, why don't they give it to them on check,
out of their pockets, like every other business in the world does? Or maybe
they should take some of the Blackjack dealers tip money, the Poker dealers tip
money, the Crap dealers tip money and the Baccarat dealers tip money to give
out as bonuses? All the above pool their tips, except poker, so it shouldn't be
to hard to go in and take some of their money to dispurse to the other
departments that normally don't receive tips and may be needing a bonus. What
do you think? I mean, they already took some the poker dealers money to use as
bonuses. How do feel about that? You want them to take some more of your money,
instead of paying out of pocket like their suppose to?

As far as Nick goes, to coin a saying "I didn't know he drank until I seen him
sober one day!"

Tom Elias and I were both about third in authority as far the tournament
hierarchy went this year.

I was going to keep this short. Oh well.
Like I said, I was a little angry when I wrote the first post, so I may have
come off a little strong.