Poker is booming in Florida. It has been for several years, due in no small part to the efforts put forth by the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which include some of the most popular tournament series on the circuit schedule. While the success of those events is a team effort, the man captaining that team is William Mason, better known as Bill. He serves as the casino's Director of Poker Operations.
Mason has been working at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for more than a decade, and this year all his hard work was recognized when he was nominated for Industry Person of the Year at the American Poker Awards alongside the World Series of Poker's Jack Effel, Poker Players Alliance's John Pappas, and World Poker Tour's Matt Savage.