What was it like inside the Penn & Teller Theater?
ESPN did a pretty good job of portraying what it was like inside the theater, but the only way to really appreciate what it was like would have been to actually have been there. This was a long and sometime tedious event to watch. But you really have to credit the fans for packing the theater and making it an electric atmosphere. But to put things in perspective, when ESPN showed the hand where Jeff Shulman bowed out in fifth place, the program was about an hour and 45 minutes old and it was the 20th hand that had been showed. In “real time” it was 3:30 a.m. and it was the 236th hand of the session. Play had been going on for more than 14 hours. So to be truthful, it wasn’t noisy and crazy the entire night like it was on the ESPN telecast. There were many moments when the media and fans were falling asleep. At one point there were 18 straight hands without a flop. But this was still a great event to be at live and in person. It was a long night/morning. It took a toll on anyone who was
