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You be at the Welcome Party tonight?
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There are about 3,000 players here, spread across 3 different rooms, so I've got no chance unless I have a table & seat number guys.
Be aware that the Site will be closing for a site outage between 5am & 6am this morning.
I genuinely have no idea if this will include the Forum, but I'll be here until end of play, & will get caught up on any news about Mr Ambo & others if the site does get bannered.
Tk u at welcome party tonight
Yes Chris, just on my way across now.
Gotta leave at 9pm though, as we have an interview to do at 9.25.
Morning all.
The site outage is complete, so we are back.
Latest news on Mr Ambo is that he has around 70,000 chips (blinds currently 250-500/75) with just over an hour of play remaining in Day 1C.
Given his street savvy in these sort of things, be a major surprise if he does not return on Day 2C (Wednesday) with a very playable stack.
Away from the tables, today has been quite a day for Dan & myself.
We did the Daily Video Update this morning, & were scheduled to do two interviews later, but for various reasons it was not possible to do either. The plan now is to do them when play finishes tonight ((midnight) or tomorrow.
Still, we managed to get a couple of interviews in the bag - Roland de Wolfe, & Shane Warne.
We got Roland at the start of the dinner break, & Shane at the very end, which was around 7.30pm.
Then we dashed across to Palazzo to meet most of the players, we got there at about 7.45, & spent an hour chatting to most of them. The craic was great, everyone was revved up, & I even remember the names of most of them. (I'm terrible with names).
Liz - Prio Liz - was there, & looked very nice indeed in a beautiful silk dress, & was working hard looking after everyone. She is a credit to Sky Poker.
Mark - from Marketing - was there, too, looking very well turned out in a Ralph Lauren silk shirt & designer jeans, & he was working very hard too. Another absolute credit to The Business.
Sky Sam was there.
We had to depart at 9pm to dash back to interview the ex Liverpool footballer John Arne Riise, who we had agreed to interview after Level 4 ended. We arrived with 3 minutes to spare after dashing up I-15 from Palazzo to The Rio, so that worked out OK - just about.
We are now waiting to see if we can get an interview with Danny N after play ends at midnight. We might have to swerve it tonight tough, as he is short stacked & not exactly beaming from ear to ear, understandably.
I'll not be sad when we are done tonight, I'm whacked.
Looks like we have at least one player playing the $1,111 Droplet tomorrow, so we'll follow him through the day.
One piece of bad & sad news is that Markycash & his Dad both somehow lost or mislaid their passports somewhere between McCarron Airport & Palazzo, probably left them in the Taxi.
Right now, they are phoning around, trying to see if they have been handed in.
This is too sad & annoying for words. Apart from the hassle of getting home, Mark needs his Passport to buy in for the Droplet (or we think he does), so it's all a bit of a headache. His Dad is a smashing bloke, as is Mark.
Fingers crossed the WSOP people will accept his Driving Licence as ID. No idea how they will resolve getting home without their Passports, that's gonna be a right pain to sort.
Mr Ambo is still sitting reasonably comfy with around 60 - 70,000.
That's me about done for tonight, been a longgggg day here.
I'll be back in the morning, fresh as a daisy.
Night all.
Surprised by any?
Sky Poker, in fact the whole of SB&G, are, genuinely, obsessed with caring for their customers.
It was a reasonable request, all things considered, & Sky Poker decided to agree to it. There are several Sky Poker players/qualifiers here who have arrived here in roundabout ways, where rules have been made a little more flexible, or reasonable requests accommodated. It applies equally to Reggie the Recreational, or Percy the Pro.
We have up to 40 playing the Droplet (probably a few less - I'd be amazed if there were no "no-shows"), & in amongst a field of X,000 I'm quite sure we'll not be physically able to report on every one.
Nobody has been disadvantaged, we have just not followed the progress of a single player.
I really don't think it's something we need to obsess about.
If he runs deep, The Business has reserved the right to review the decision, & may well allow me to report his progress.
Good luck tonight with your Free Entry, good guess that, just 3 out, wp.
One last thing before we draw a line under Day 1c.
TV Dan & I "walked the rooms" (there were three of them) numerous times yesterday, looking for familiar faces, big names, Sky poker players, people who it would be good to mention or interview.
One man we never once saw was Ryan Spittles, aka Scotty77. And then, after play ended, Ryan came into the Media Centre & told us he ended the day with 50,900.
So well done Ryan, & he now plays Day 2C, tomorrow (Wednesday). We'll follow his progress tomorrow, fo sho.
Ha, glad someone noticed that.
I was a little disappointed with my performance in that video, but honestly, it was 16 hours into a gruelling day & I was wrecked.
Sometimes "let's get it right" & "that'll have to do" come into conflict.