At any major poker tournament, there's likely a player party the night before the main event. I've been attending such parties for over a decade, and have learned that they're rarely worth looking forward to; sure it's good to see everyone, but when I hear "party" I think late nights and wild times... yet most player parties are tame affairs with a gender ratio that makes the military look like a sorority.
So I didn’t get my hopes up approaching the player party here in Sanya, despite the picturesque MGM Grand providing an ideal setting. My superiors at the World Poker Tour assured me that they — and our new Chinese owners Ourgame — were planning an insane event that would attract beautiful women, and that the festivities would shatter my tepid expectations.