It's pretty late in the evening and I just got back to the PW office. I thought I would move forward in this whole PSR "history" and make a quick post about today's draw.
The entire thing went off like clockwork. Finance Sec Gary Teves arrived at the PAGCOR Airport Casino about 12:45, just in time for the live airing of the draw. R came in right with him and the two sat with me at the head table. Press loomed about trying to get "exclusive" quotes - just about impossible considering the reporters were all beside one another.
At 1, the show went live on ABC5, with the two hosts - TG and JM - doing their spiel. The only real heart-stopping moment was when Teves was drawing the 5th and final millionaire. He was supposed to press F5 to start the electronic tambiolo. He missed and hit maybe F4 or F6. Since all the other keys were "dead," of course the tambiolo didn't start up. There was a pause - always a disaster on TV - since no one could see that Teves didn't hit the F5 key.
After what seemed a TV eternity, actually about a second, he leaned over again and hit the right button. This time the tambiolo did start up and when he pressed the space bar afterwards, the winning raffle entry number was delivered.
The total timing of the draw was 20:14, clearly more than the 15 minutes that ABC5 allotted for us, but I think they'll squeeze it all in.
PS - I found a blog that posts about gaming in the Philippines:
http://gamingphi.wordpress.com/
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somebody named Atty. Raul C. Santiago informed thru my cellphone number here in Saudi Arabia that i won in the Filipino casino raffle electronic draw. I know, again this is a form of swindle.pls trace this impostor.Tis type of guy needs to be burned in hell or vanish from the face of the earth.
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