Unsung Heroes Part 2

By Dennis Oehring

As promised, here is the first of four brief profiles on each of the dealers appearing on Poker After Dark. The introductory article on all of them can be found by clicking here. Let's begin with Danette.

Danette Denise Morway (shown here with Freddy Deeb) began dealing poker at the Mirage in 1995, where she remained until February 2006. She then transferred to Treasure Island and helped open TI's new poker room, and is currently employed there as a shift manager. In addition to the shows mentioned in Part 1, she also dealt the final table for the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown in 2005.

Danette is originally from Kailua, Hawaii, and moved to Las Vegas fourteen years ago. She came to Las Vegas on a recommendation from her cousin, Angie Border, who is another of the dealers you will meet soon. Danette met her current husband seven years ago in the Mirage poker room, where he was playing side action games while a Harrah's tournament was going on.

Danette has a 14-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, and a 2-year-old son with her current husband. She states that Dr. Amir Nasseri, who played on the first season of High Stakes Poker, was the doctor who delivered her son. Nasseri drove all the way back to Las Vegas from Los Angeles two days after the death of his father in California to do so, and Danette says that Nasseri is probably the player she loves the most for that reason, aside from her husband.