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You are the Tournament Director Series 2: Matt Savage

Name: Matt Savage

Age: 36

Hometown, Country: San Jose, California now living in Las Vegas

Home (local) Casino/ Card room: My local home casino is right now Bay 101 in San Jose but right now I live in Las Vegas.

Experience (how long TD): I got my start running tournaments from being the bottom - basically chip runner, dealer, floor man, lead floor man, tournament director. The reason I became a tournament director was because I was dealing and I developed a carpal tunnel. I loved dealing so if it wasn’t for that I might still be dealing which is kind of interesting so I’ve been doing tournaments right now for probably 6 years.

Major Festivals/ Tournaments worked at: I’ve done events WSOP 2002, 2003 and 2004, Showdown at the Sands, I do a lot of events for Fox Sports Net, London Open, Monte Carlo Millions, World Poker Tour events, Party Poker Million 2, 3 and 4, Shooting Stars, World Poker Tour.

JB: The tapes only an hour long you know that ?

MS: Many major events and just basically all over the world