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What table you on, Mark?
Ugh, but a cracking spot you found there, & your read was spot on.
Journey home was a bit of a nightmare. Left the Palazzo in Vegas at 5am on Monday and everything started fine and we departed on time. Just an hour from JFK the pilot informed the passengers that "we are in a holding pattern as JFK is not accepting any flights". I knew instantly this was likely to cause major problems. There were severe thunderstorms at JFK and after 30 minutes we were diverted to Buffalo.
Not the end of the world in itself but the fact we had two subsequent flights packed snugly together posed obvious problems. We were told to stay on the plane and we would hopefully depart soon. This approach was abandonded after an hour and we disembarked into the Buffalo terminal. After 3 hours stuck in the airport we were finally told we would leave within 30 minutes and be rebooked on a later flight from JFK to London.
As promised we set off to JFK albeit after another small delay as we had to wait on someone coming with a big ladder to give the door handle a 'bit of a bang' as it was 'sticking out a bit'. By the time we got to JFK we were too late to even make our rebooked flight. All was not lost as someone from American Airlines met us at the gate and and gave us new boarding passes for the next flight. Things at last were looking up as we got to the gate at JFK! Then we were told this flight had been completely cancelled.
So it was a journey to the American Airlines check-in desks to figure out what the hell we would be doing. Basically we were rebooked for the following night and bussed to a hotel on Staten Island for the night.
Things at least picked up the following night and our flight went to plan. We even got put on a British Airways jumbo which was a world apart from the dated American Airlines planes. A final flight from Heathrow to Glasgow this morning and at last we are safely home. It did take 2 taxis, 2 shuttle buses, 2 train rides, 4 flights and a car journey but finally we got there 2 days later.
Now looking forward to starting the next chapter and coming up with some sort of schedule of play. Probably heavily comprised of MTT's here and on another couple of sites and of course some OH8 DYM's.
It was fun meeting everyone. Nice to see Ned overcame the nerves and was enjoying the cash games at the Palazzo the last time I saw him deep into the night at the Palazzo. It was fun to hit the strip till about 6am with some of the qualifiers on the second last night and great to meet the Sky team. Everyone I spoke to seemed to enjoy the trip and Sky really went the extra mile to make sure everyone had a fun experience. It would have been great to not loss our passports, to have cashed in the event and got home a bit easier but the trip was still great fun and I managed a reasonable profit from the cash games so overall not to bad
Thanks for reading and hope you are all running well!
Glad u got back ok after ther passport issues, hopefully see you again same time next year if not before
Crikey Mark, what a nightmare.
Must have been a bit of a pain for Dad, too.
Did Dad enjoy the trip, the journey home excepted?
Sky Poker certainly did their best this year, & I think they did pretty well, not heard any moans or groans so far, which considering there were 45 player (& their +1's & 2's) is quite pleasing.
Prior to the trip there were some who were chuntering that Sky Poker were not offering "value" with VLV, they thought there was money left over which Sky had creamed off the top, but that does not allow for the various adventures, free bars, nights out etc.
PS - keep away from the PLO8 DYM tables, right? Can do without you & your "Odds call" stuff.....;)
Will definitely be trying for next year so hopefully see you there. Hope the tourneys are good to you.
See you on the tables soon no doubt
It was interesting when we eventually got the flight from JFK to London. The BA jumbo was so nice compared to the American Airlines planes. Personal entertainment centre with films, TV shows, games and loads of other stuff - no less than 6 toilets in our back section of the plane, so no queues and plenty opportunity to walk around and stretch the legs. I will struggle to travel with American Airlines again.