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Schecter, Elliott D., 1969-

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Elliott Schecter got a job dealing poker at a private club in New York City to earn spending money while he was a student at Rutgers. He worked as a dealer on a casino cruise ship, then became the shift manager in the poker room at the Seminole Casino Hollywood in Florida when it opened. Elliott also worked on the Palm Beach Princess casino cruise ship, at the Reno Hilton, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Palms, at the Downstream Casino Resort in Oklahoma, and the Snoqualmie Casino in the Seattle area.