Thursday, 25 June 2009

The winners arrive...

The players arrived today, unbelievably in the middle of a rainstorm, ridiculous for the middle of the desert, obviously bringing some European weather with them. They'd all had a good flight though and arrived very excited and in high spirits.

We took the short coach journey over to Planet Hollywood and then all relaxed and had a drink in the Paradise Poker suite where we have games, table football, a full bar, plus a few chip sets of course!

We also took the time to hand out all the tournament tickets, spending money, Paradise Poker bags and VIP passes for the week which all the players seemed very happy with.

We'd been back down to the Rio in the morning to sort out the minor issue with the registrations and make sure all our players were set up for event 51 on Saturday morning. We just beat Daniel Negreanu to the cashier's desk but when he got served he wouldn't stop talking. The guy is certainly full of energy and was munching his way through a plastic bag of watermelon - times must be hard if he's taking a packed lunch to the WSOP!