Dealer Chairs

If Poker dealers had a union, they would bargain for a working conditions requirement that the dealer chairs be height adjustable to within 3 inches of the table bottom, or some similar rule that would have the house provide dealer chairs that go up to an appropriate height.

At the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL, the dealer chairs were height adjustable but they only went down, never high enough.  Every dealer chair in the place was fully extended upward and most dealers were sitting on multiple seat cushions in an attempt to raise themselves up to a comfortable position to deal from. 

The optimal position puts the thighs just touching the underside of the table.  As you can see in the photo, even with the aide of a cushion, the seat is about 4" too low.

I thought it was a shame that the Seminoles purchased such  beautiful chairs with custom logos on the backs and deep cushioned leather seats but simply too short to be good dealer chairs.  Notably, they also provided the players with cushioned folding chairs that were too low.  Every day we heard complaints from the players that the chairs were too low and that they hated sitting at a table that came up to their armpits.

BTW, in the photos, dealers are sitting at the ends of the tables rather than the middle because the pics were taken during the Heads Up Tournament when we place two matches at each table with a dealer at each end.  The chair situation is the same at either position.