{"product_id":"dan-paymar-the-professional-poker-dealer-s-handbook-9781880685181","title":"The Professional Poker Dealer's Handbook","description":"About Dan Paymar: Dan was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Before turning to a career in the poker industry, Dan spent four years at Michigan Tech, becoming an engineer. His first work in the computer industry was in field service for Bendix Computer, which was bought out by Control Data in 1963. In 1967, Dan moved on to develop a text editing system for Encyclopædia Britannica. With two other engineers, Dan started Educational Data Systems. Their goal: to write a BASIC language interpreter and disk operating system for the Data General Nova computer to handle up to sixteen users. As far as we know, this was the first time-sharing system ever to run on a minicomputer. When the company began manufacturing its own computers Educational Data Systems became Point 4 Data Corporation. Always the idea man, Dan then developed an accessory for the Apple-II computer which he sold via his own mail order business and through retail outlets. In 1989 Dan changed his career direction about 180 degrees and returned to school to become a poker dealer. That same year, he moved to Las Vegas. After five years working as a poker dealer, playing some poker, and getting interested in video poker, Dan became an instructor for poker dealers at Casino Gaming School. Not satisfied with the instructional materials then available, the original edition of this book was born. Starting as a booklet of fifty pages, the text evolved as new situations and questions came up in class that were not covered. In 1995, the second edition of the original text, with eighty pages, was published and sold in gaming bookstores. About Donna Harris: Donna Harris was born and raised in California and came to Las Vegas in 1979 for the World Cup of Darts, which was held at the Sahara Hotel. She was the first female official for this event.","brand":"Two Plus Two","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53680203628886,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781880685181_1_b4421777-b86f-4de8-9734-5605f2d5a67d.jpg?v=1781742753","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/dan-paymar-the-professional-poker-dealer-s-handbook-9781880685181","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}