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United Airlines sucks

shaundeeb Well I will write tourney reports for the EPT Prague ME and the 2k Euro side event I played both with a lot of interesting hands and such but right now my minds on something else. I had a good last night in Prague ended up getting into a club it was a good time the EPT winner was there celebrating a solid player I've played with before was def who I was rooting for once timex busted. Anyways I head to the airport on no sleep planning on getting lots on my long upcoming flights. First 2 flights were a breeze got lucky no one was sitting in the middle seat so I had plenty of room to stretch during the 9 hour flight from vienna to Wahington DC I get there around 3 eastern for a flight to Albany at 5:30. I made a mistake of having half a box of cigars with me that tufat kept from our amsterdam trip.

I thought nothing off it and told customs that I had the goods had to get it checked they were habana romeo y juliets which are illegal to have in the US. I thought it was ok for personal consumption and under a small number but I was wrong they had to confiscate all of them. So anyways it ends up being less of a big deal then I feared just lost a few cigars get my bags checked head to the gate have a bit of trouble getting to the gate finally get there try to checkin I am told I can't do it because I am a different airlines. So I head to Customer service and get a boarding pass around 4 the flight was delayed until 7pm so I hung out a bit played some poker and was keeping an eye on the wafflecrushers still left in the 15k . Anyways chatting a bit some guy sits at 25/50 cap with me for 1500 and sucks a lot I hear them announce they are boarding the flight I have to quit him and don't like it close my things and go to the line to board the plane.

The attendant asks me where I am going I say Albany and try to hand him my boarding pass he says no you can't board we are full go to customer service. I am like wtf flights leaving in 5 minutes and I need to get on it there's a storm about to hit around midnight in Albany I was told. I also noticed because the flight was 2hours delayed the 9:55 flight was canceled because the plane wouldn't be ready. So I have to wait 45min to talk to a CS person they can't do much the whole terminal was understaffed and under trained and just completely lost 2 qualified people partially trained could have done more then the 10 people I had to have help me over the 4 hours/

After like another hour I finally got a hotel voucher and food voucher and a free round trip ticket. I went to the hotel took a while to find the right shuttle, stuck here without clothes as well since my baggage got on the flight I was supposed to be on. I wanted to get home there was a party being thrown at my house with everyone being home from school didn't get a chance to celebrate with my brother who turned 23 while I was in Europe. Also my flights in a few hours but theres a solid chance it gets canceled again as theres a day long storm all.
across the northeast. Also If all goes well I';ll be in vegas on monday sweating hopefully bakes and vivek going in 1 and 2 for the finaltable of the 15k.

Update

Things just keep getting worse, I stayed up all night and got blueballed in a bunch of tourneys going deep without a ft. I had about two hours to wait till my flight I am getting ready then I recheck the flight info online and as I expected it was canceled. Then I try to book a new flight for the next availble one I am on hold for 30minutes before I fall asleep because I am exhausted. I wakeup an hour or two later get a hold of my aunt who also serves as my travel agent she can't do anything from her end because every flight is booked . I finally get a hold of someone get a different flight the earliest one is 955 pm. So I try to get my hotel recovered so I could hangout in the room instead of the airport for the next 7 hours. I have trouble getting that, so they transfer me to the international department and I argue for him not to put me to them again knowing how long I would be on hold as I am waiting my phone dies. I have no charger of coursed with me or any clothes to change into.

So I can't even play a redic amazing sunday schedule because of my flights if I went deep I would have to have someone take over which I am unsure of the legality of it for getting on a plane and then having someone play on my accounts. And I would be deep in some of them by then and it would bother me on the flight the fact that I am not playing deep in a major. Also add to that that most of the mtters I know will be playing on their own anyway at the time.

Comments

lakong says

sonds like a complete nightmare. I feel for you, man. Get home safe!

12/16/07

Anonymous says

You write well.....

12/18/07

Adanthar says

My United flight home was cool. My American Airlines flight to Vegas through Minneapolis got delayed and I got stuck in MN for the night...which they only comped half of my hotel for, because apparently if it's an airport problem they don't give you a freebie.

lol airlinements

12/18/07

Anonymous says

Hope your trip to Prague went better then that. I have seen lots of Europe but never Prague. You are lucky to travel and play poker. GL on the tables and have a merry holidays.

12/19/07

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