I did try and get on the 25-50 NL game that Daneil Alayai and Antonio Estandfari were sitting down at, but after 4 hours on the waiting list I gave up. Its amazing here, they could fill another 15 cash tables easy, if they had the space.
Its poker crazy here and one thing that you really notice is the large amount of women players compared to europe, maybe this will follow suit in the UK. They have had to put an extra nightly £500 NL tourney which gets 150 runners to satisfy the hunger for poker. They do really rake the hell out of you here though, its $35 dollars juice to play a $300 STT and $14 per hour to play a 10-20 NL game. BUT, demand still outstrips supply.
NL STT and NL cash games are so popular over here, as they are on the internet, but the "type" of players are different. Here the average poker player does not play any of the casino games where as in the UK, we find a lot of players graduate onto poker from the casino table games, that's how I started anyway.
The BIG game has been pretty busy in the Bellagio, Gus Hanson, Chip Reese and the boys have been playing round the clock. In fact, I when i went to bed at 1am on Monday, Gus Hanson had been playing at least 7 hours, when I returned to the cardroom at 5pm the next day, he was still sitting in the same seat and same clothes, which means he'd been playing $4k-$8k blinds for over 20 hours, what must the swing be in that session 
You hear all these stories that he's skint, but you need $1m to sit down at that game for that period, so if he's skint what about the boys on the $1-$2 limit game!
I met Scott Fishman at the Blackjack table yesterday, he seems one of those people I just keep bumping into, I played on 3 tables with him at the WSOP and then on the Poker Den this year. He said he loved touring Europe, especially England. This guy loves poker, he's played 300 tournaments in 2005 so far which is more that 1 a day, I guess this includes online as well. He asked how that "Chubby guy who never stops talking was", I wonder who he could mean? Wouldn't it be great if these sort of guys came over to play in our Club one day (and we didn't have to pay their airfare!).
I've taken some great photos of the Bellagio, got told off using my camera in the cardroom, but it really helped looking at the set up here. We've got 15,000 sq ft to fill so we need the ideas. Maybe "Bellagio-On-Tent" is the winning suggestion for the club name?
