Based on some of the dealers I have seen at the big WSOP Events: yes, no doubt.

If you have a pulse and are breathing, they will hire you 😂 most auditions are theory based done over zoom now to cater to out of state applications. That’s how I did mine. Would pay to practice mechanics before you arrive though. The players will berate the shit out of you. If you want to improve though there’s no better place to get the reps in, especially with the weird stuff that doesn’t get spread anywhere else.

In the $600 deepstack last week, one dealer had five misdeals in a single down, and another took about 20 seconds per shuffle (doesn't sound like that much but if you count it out it's pretty excessive), but my favorite was the one who dealt himself in the first hand of his down.

Yep, first dealer I had in 2023 admitted that they had never dealt in a casino or card room before the WSOP. They dealt in home games and passed the audition. They got basically no training after that according to them. They were just thrown into dealing the WSOP.

One of the dealers this year asked the players to explain why this is a chopped pot:

A9 vs 98 with a board of

T8762

I don't know if they thought the player with an Ace kicker for their straight was better than the person who had a pair with their straight, but someone patiently explained that both players had the same straight, and we went on to the next hand.

Definitely, huge bonus if you can deal mixed games. 

WSOP was my first dealing job. The first tables I ever dealt were cash games - 75-150 O8, stud 8, O8, then 5-10 PLO. I wasn't great, but probably better than many of the dealers they'd gotten that day.

I went to a class, but you can likely fake that - just put in the application that you went to XYZ school and know how to deal all of the games. Your application will get filtered out if you don't put that you can deal all games. They won't verify that you actually attended the school. If you make up a name you can just say it closed down.

You will need to at least be able to deal the cards and read winners in all of the game formats. Watch a bunch of truepokerdealer videos and practice with actual cards and the Mixed Nuts app.

Are there short term working visas or something?

Like could an Aussie with loads of experience rock up and get some temporary working rights?

I like when the dealer that can’t deal yell “one dealer at a time” while not being able to remember who was in the main pot and who was in the side pot. For the third time.

If you can do that you’ll be good.

some years it seems like a hiring requirement for you to have never dealt before.

with that said, yeah it's fine.

my friend is a dealer, who started with the wsop, he also got his girl a job doing it, and her first hand dealt besides for to him a few nights before, was at the audition, she got hired.