From: "Rick Charles" Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:20:55 -0700 Subject: [BARGE] (Early Barge report) First impressions...hope they don't last. Checked in to the Plaza at 3pm and headed over to the Poker Room, well "are= a". Eric R brought me over, so I was gonna buy him lunch, but first he nee= ded his videocrack fix. I watched him roller-coaster up and down, and fina= lly make $60 and after much whining about being hungry, he finally said, OK= .=20=20 While at the cage cashing in his ticket Patrick Milligan came up and said h= ello, I introduced him to Eric, and then became the FIRST "non chip comitte= e" person to purchase the BARGE 2005 pin... DING! It's already on my hat. Then Eric and I proceeded to the snack bar near the elevators to the South = Tower and had a "not so bad" corned beef sandwich. Now get this, they serv= e Corned Beef WITH sauerkraut, ON rye, but no Reubens? HUH?! Get a damned= bottle of thousand Island you morons! Then Eric leaves, I head for the "elevator from hell" The door keeps openi= ng and closing for no apparent reason, there is no one else in the elevator= lobby, I begin to think I'm on candid camera, when finally the door stays = closed and up to the 5th floor I go. I open the door to my room, the Bellm= an has taken good care of distributing my bags, hanging my gament bag, and = even plugging in my coffee pot (don't leave home without it) But I happen = to notice that it was cooler OUTSIDE than in my room. Call the front desk,= they say they'll send a bellman and move me to another room on the 6th flo= or, but still close to the elevator (which I requested, cuz I'm still not g= etting around as well as I'd like) and it's another smoking room. OK!...NO= T!!! There is already someone IN that room, imagine their surprise when we= came bursting in with a trolley full of bags...oops. Front desk is called, and then we're sent to the 7th floor. Another bellma= n runs the keys up to us, while I'm on the phone with Cingular support bitc= hing about (what she found after an hour on the phone was a system-wide) vo= icemail outtage(one good note, the elevator didn't kill my cell signal). A= fter finally arriving at my new room, the second bellman had brought the ke= ys from the SECOND room, and had to run back to the front desk. All the wh= ile I'm still on with cingular, running through all of the level one suppor= t troubleshooting possible. Bellman #2 finally re-arrives at my new room o= n the 7th floor first key doesn't work, but THANK GOD the second one does! = Woo Hoo! I run (well, not really run) to the air conditioner, turn it on, = and wonderfully, blissfully am hit with gale force supercooled air. I tip = the bellman (again) and then notice I've got a view of the tennis courts an= d pool, ok, things are looking up...UNTIL, I see guy about my size wearing = a PURPLE SPEEDO...close drapes, wait for cingular to call my room so they c= an have me do things with my phone while not connected to the network. Aft= er all of that, I finally get my computer out, plug in my cellular broadban= d air card and start typing this.=20=20 One other thing to bitch about... only 14 channels on the TV, one en espano= l, one casino channel, and one KENO channel. Thank God for MLBTV, at least= I can watch my Padres continue to lose. POKER RELATED CONTENT: Only 2 live games going at 3:30 both 2-4 One "Sit and Go" $25 buy-in $200 winner take all, I talk to the shift mana= ger, they run them all day Tourneys: 7 and 11 pm Basically $100. Gonna play in one of them tonight, = just haven't decided which. Anyone else planning on playing in either of them tonight? Rick "The Voice of Poker" Charles http://www.voiceofpoker.com http://www.pokerupdates.com=20 Host of the weekly Poker Updates Radio Show A+ G++ PKR+ PEG- B-- TB-- ADB+ M++ ________ BARGE 2005 is being supported by PokerStars.com and ParadisePoker.com.