EGR Awards: The Oscars of iGaming, Red Carpet Style
The 5th annual EGR Awards was an absolute pleasure to attend, report on, and, well, lets be honest…drink at. This year eGaming Review managed to attract a full house of more than 900 guests who witnessed the recognition of 17 operators receiving an award at the Old Billingsgate award ceremony venue. While I was unable to actually watch the recipients accept their award, I did have the honor of interviewing each and every one of them, along with the award’s sponsor, immediately after. Rebecca Liggero Red Carpet Style. In addition interviewing the award recipients and sponsors, I did notice some very special outfits, I enjoyed dinner and a plethora of wine at one of PKR’s three tables, I played some poker, I played some drinking games, I danced to 80’s music, and I stayed out till 3am. All in my red carpet dress.
Lets begin with the outfits. The night began with a champagne reception during which my producer planted me right by the door so I could conveniently ambush people for interviews upon entry. Ha. Truth is, I just wanted to scope out the outfits and fashion choices of our very international and very special crowd…so I could report them back to you, of course. Some outfits of note include an irresistible mustache on RaketheRake’s Karim Wilkins, a skull and crossbones decorated bow tie and cufflink set on PKR’s Jez San, the gorgeous cream and sparkly dress on Claire Leighton of Bodog Europe, the subtle yet stylish velvety purpley blazer on Bet Genius’s Mark Locke, and Caroline Steele’s lovely last minute ensemble due to the evil dry cleaners who were holding her originally planned outfit captive.
And then there was my outfit- my very red dress- the portable red carpet for the night, if you will. Seeing as eGaming Review brands the EGR Awards as the Oscars of the iGaming industry, we should have a red carpet and some interviewing to go along with the event, yes? Cue the CalvinAyre.com camera, Rebecca Liggero in a bright red dress, the blue penis mic, and VOILA! We’ve got ourselves a red carpet event without an actual red carpet. I would like to think the “how does it feel” interviews were fun for everyone involved because they sure as hell were fun for me. However, these interviews were a little rough on the memory bank…you try remembering a European name full of vowels, a company name, and the unnecessarily long name of an award 17 different times. Now do you see why I decided to get drunk afterwards?
Of course you do. Time for the after party. As soon the awards finished, all 900+ people made their way downstairs for dinner, drinks, dancing, poker and drinking games. I thank you PKR for kindly inviting me to your table, and I thank you even more for the endless red wine that was readily available at that table for me to drink. After dinner and wine, the 80s music began and the highly intoxicated members of the crowd migrated to the dance floor while the rest migrated to the Microgaming sponsored poker tables for some tourneys and prizes. While I do enjoy dancing and playing poker, I spent most of my time mingling, interviewing people, and playing drinking games with Karim. As fate would have it, I lost our intense game of hi/low and had to take the shot of sambuca as a result. Eww!! Thank god we have the whole thing captured on CalvinAyre.com camera.
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