Hi to everyone here at Blonde.  Rowena was a VERY popular winner here last night at the Tropicana in Vegas.  The game played on the Mansion Poker Dome is M SPEED POKER.  You might recall the great coverage Dave gave the game when it debuted in Estonia 18 months ago, well it seems Dave gave his lovely lady a tip or two.  A few teething problems with our first show but it should look VERY good on TV tonight. (18 hours after taping).  The players had $50,000 in chips, 20 minute levels the blinds = $1k/$2k, $2k/$4k, $3k/$6k, $5k/$10K.  They never got to the $5/$10/k level.  They played a total of 43 hands and 41 of them will go to air so you get to see the whole thing almost.
Look forward to seeing lots of you Blonde guys here in Vegas during this 43 week season .
Cheers,
Keith "Bendigo" Sloan
Poker Operations Manager
MANSION GROUP

10 of the biggest names in poker sat down at Crown today and played a AUD$100,000 (USD75,000) winner take all Speed Poker™
The format was 5 players per table played as 2 seperate shootouts with top 3 from each table going to the final TV table.
The game of was Speed Poker™
PLAYERS:
Phil Ivey - USA
Michael Sampoerna - INDONESIA
Barry Greenstein - USA
John Juanda - USA
Tony G -AUSTRALIA
Mike Sexton - USA
Tony Bloom - UNITED KINGDOM
Ralph Burd - AUSTRALIA
Jeff Lisandro - AUSTRALIA
Jason Gray - AUSTRALIA
1st player out was Ivey, next Tony G, Ralph Burd, Michael Sampoerna, Tony Bloom, Barry Greenstein, down to 4 as I post this.
Jeff Lisandro, Jason Gray, Mike Sexton, John Juanda. (8.30 pm Melbourne time).

Nice words Tony.

Yeah right, anything to get out of "home duties".  But just on the off chance you aren't bluffing mate, from all your Aussie mates, get well soon and get back down here sometime soon and bring the family with you this time.
Cheers,
Bendigo.