What Now (please read the other post 1st)

I hope everyone that stops by reads the entries in order. That is why I went back and added the (please read the other post first). I want to set the level first. I want to tell everyone where I want to be now and for the future.

I want to come to the place where poker is and have control of the tournament at hand either at the front of the room or at the tables. At the tables is a debatable thing because I haven't played so much in the past year and I am rusty. In the front of the room however, I should be in control. Either way I want to have a good time. If everyone was committed to playing the best they could and having a good time it would follow that everyone SHOULD have a good time.
I would think that the people who come to play would want me to be in control. I think some of them DEPEND on my being in place. I say "me" but I mean anyone who has agreed to assume the role of Tournament Director.
In my mind I have a set of rule that define a Tournament Director from a player that is running a game. This would be a good time to define the difference and explain WHY I feel the way I do.

Tournament Director

In my mind a tournament director should have knowledge of the players in the game they are in control of. The players are the tournament. If a director doesn't understand this they are fighting an uphill battle. Understanding players is essential because you should have an idea of why they think the way they do and how they may react to different situations. WTP is played in bars where alcohol is being served. This will ALWAYS be a factor. A bad beat after a few hours of Coor's Light could be like walking in a mine field. Most of the players I am exposed to are people I know. There are always new folks coming around so I feel it necessary to keep tabs on them. It is my duty because I don't want these unknowns to become known for the wrong reasons.
In my mind the tournament director can never be a player and a director at the same time. There is just too much responsibility to be consumed in an all-in situation and be needed to make a critical decision at the same time. I know the WTP situations are "usually" friendly but you may be surprised how many times people have approached me and complained that other players have seemed overly aggressive. Maybe it is a small part of the game strategy but in this situation it is mostly uncalled for. If you were there for the Regional event at Cheers bar and grille a few seasons ago remember how that whole situation fell apart so quickly. In that situation a real tournament director would have intervened and held that aggressive action to a minimum.
A tournament director should know the game. I don't necessarily mean you have to know how to play as good as the players we all see on television but you should have a working knowledge of the mechanics of Texas Hold'em. How the cards should be dealt, the flop should be completed and the how's and why's of the game at hand. Everyone has heard some know it all player say "it's in the rules." Who knows? Last week when we were in Las Vegas I heard of a situation that was completly new to me. The tournament director there actually had a dealer reshuffle the cards after the hole cards had been dealt. I'll explain that later. Anyone that has been in attendance at an event where I was in control may know that I carry a rule book with me. I don't just carry it around so I can say "Show me where it is in the rules." I have read this book so that I can make a better informed decision when asked to do so. I have also supplemented this with a copy of "Robert's Rules of Poker" which I found online took the time and expense to read and print myself for the good of poker in Baltimore.
In short a good tournament director should be committed to keeping all the games they run either tournament or ring style, fair, exciting and fun for everyone involved in them.

My commitment is clearly stated in the previous writing so if you didn't read it please go back and check it out. If you have a tournament coming up think about these principles and try to apply them to the play at hand.

By the way:
the reshuffle was done because a bet had been made before the flop which the dealer missed (they are only human after all) and after he threw the flop a player complained so the tournament director had the dealer return the burn card and the flopped cards to the deck and reshuffle them. No big deal, the cards were returned to their randomization.