The EWSOP Vienna - Day One LIVE UPDATE

[Djinn]

Welcome to the Concord Card Casino here in glorious Vienna, home this week to the super-structured, many-runnered No-limit hold'em extravaganza which is the EWSOP! 

There's a gaggle of Brits you know and love, and a whole other pile of people all milling around waiting for the draw at 3pm. 

Snoops and I are Connected and ready to bring you all the action in about half an hour's time.  Watch this space...

[Royal Flush]

 

[crddolly]

Can't wait oooh the excitement  To all the Blonds playing


and a big  to RED DOG

[Djinn]

Hi guys, Red here, Last night after a horrible day of delayed flights and lost luggage we finally arrived at the Concord

I have to admit, I was a little awe struck.  Only a couple of years ago I was watching Late night poker with Thomas Kremser and Marina Rado, I had never played a game  of poker in my life, except for a few home games

Now I,m chatting to Thomas and Marina ove ar coffee and waiting for the main event to start

I'm playing you know.......

I feel like an imposter

[Djinn]

Ok, I lied about chatting over coffee, but I am playing

[Numpty Dumpty]

hey jen and snoops

please wish good luck to stu rutter for me ("easy pickings") if u see him. he is the 6-4" thin young guy if u dont know him.

good luck to all the blondes

 

[Djinn]

Can't wait oooh the excitement  To all the Blonds playing


and a big  to RED DOG

Thank you dariling, apart from Mrs Red, you are the only one to remember

[Jim R]

Is there two first days for this and if so can i come tomorrow

[Trace]

Woohooo at last.

I've been refreshing for ages waiting for this to appear and then the one time I don't refresh, we're live and kicking!!!

Good luck to all Blondes playing

Happy Birthday Red mwaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Good luck to Jen and Snoops with the updating.

[Dewi_cool]

   Jen and Snoopy, good luck to all participants and    Y Ci Coch (Red Dog in welsh)

[NoflopsHomer]

  and  to all.


 Looking forward to the updates.

[The_nun]

GL all......

Red we sent you a whole list og Happy Birthdays you cheeky ole' dog

[snoopy1239]

After a hefty battle with the wifi card, I'm connected and raring to go.

Yesterday wasn't the most fun-filled day I've had.

After rising at an unpokerlike hour, RED-DOG, B4Matt, and myself rushed off to the airport.

We collected our tickets and promptly boarded the plane after a good ol' fashioned English brekkie. I didn't want the balck pudding, so Matt practically begged for the dinnerlady to transfer the extra item over to his plate.

All good so far.

Until... the pilot informed us of some sort of fuel problem. Hmm, sounds promising. Glad they spotted it before we took off.

After an inevitably tedious wait, we were off.

As we ascended into the clouds, I suddenly realised that I'd forgotten to take my travel sickness pills. Me and travelling don't really mix at all, but I'm normally all right IF I've taken my pills. Oops.

After a few minutes of helping Matt with his frustratingly tricky crossword, I started to feel my guts turn inside out.

Right, head on table time. Deep breaths, sick-bag at the ready, and prey that the vomit gods don't slap me in the face.

When we landed in Amsterdam,  I felt dodgy, but manageable. As long as I take things nice and steady, I should be back to normal be4 the next flight. No sudden movements...

Unfortunately, due to the delay, we had to leg it to the next flight. Bah!

We made the next flight just as they were boarding, but, what a suprise, another delay.

Whilst seated, we are infomed that one of the hatches won't close. Smashing stuff.

Who built these planes? The chuckle brothers?!

The only good thing was that this delay enable my stomach to settle and probably stopped me from hurling on the trip. A blessing in disguise perhaps?

And, if the day couldn't get any more annoying, our bags failed to turn up the other end.

Foxy actually ran to one, but it wasn't his.  I think he managed to pull it off without looking too dawky. Well, almost.

After conferring with the Austrain airport staff, we were kindly told that our bags were on a  different flight. Yep, that makes sense.

So, after waiting another 2 or 3 hours, they eventually arrived. Phewee.

That WAS a relief as my whole wardrobe was in that bag.

I had to buy 6 new boxer shorts, 5 pairs of socks, 5 shirts, and 1 jacket, just so I had enough clothes for the next 12 days.

6 pairs of boxers in my collection at home is normally enough, but not on a trip abroad, although RED does suggest turning them inside out. He's on Day 3 of his apparantly. He tells me he can get a good 4 days out of them.

Anyhow, we're all here safe and sound. Appartment is pretty dandy and we enjoyed a friendly home game last night. tikay faired poorly, as usual.

Right, I'm going to post this now be4 my connection goes titties up.

[AlrightJack]

Following my failure to win a seat in the super satellite last night, where I finished 26th with the top 22 getting seats I will be doing my bit to assist with the updaters.

Mickey Wernick is of course here playing
Patrick Wardonkey Taylor is here also as a sponsored player following his win in the sponorship freeroll last Sunday
Stuart Fox and Kevin O'Leary are also playing in Blue Square colours following their wins in the heads up challenges we ran in December and January

Other notable Brits/Irish include

Joe Grech
Roy Brindley
Ashely Alterman
Juliaqn Thew
Steve and Xuyen Vladar (or is that Bladar?  )
Les and Jim Kerrigan
B4Matt
Steve Jelinek
Simon Nowab
Rob Yong
Nick Whiten
Paul Parker
Simon Trumper

the list goes on...

Good luck to each and every one of them

[NoflopsHomer]

Snoopy I promise I won't ask how anyone is doing...