Finally righted it at 7:00 PM after 4 tries the Livestream freeroll went.
At the top of the hour the announcers announced the freerolls with the pass words - Ebony, Scott, FinalTable at 4 PM, 5 PM and 6 PM. Have no idea if it was case sensitive, because they didn't say.
Announcers never were given the headsup that there was a problem. In the comments, Borgata did say they were having problems and the 7 and 8 would be ok.
The 8 PM was posted on the Borgata site. The Live Stream went on break.
The break is going past 8. They interview Tad, the Borgata Tournament Director. They move the 8:00 to 8:05. Three players guess the password and sign up.
Just before 8:05, the Tournament disappears, never to be seen again?
The announcers, who announced the 4 Previous Passwords totally forget about the 8 o'clock Password. BTW the 7 Password was Event1.
At 8:25 Ebony announces the 8:00 Password - Borgata. She asks is it still going? Some one tells her no. Subject dropped.
And now ends the BPO Livestream Freerolls experiment. 1 out of 5 ran. $500 paid versus the $2,500 that should have been paid.
BTW the live stream was ... a live stream with too much comment, not enough personalization of the players, extremely quiet final table with no characters.
Been skimming through it on youtube, I was very impressed with the quality of the live stream especially considering it was a first attempt. There were some dead moments, but it was 8+ hour live stream, not a 60 min wpt episode, thats how poker is. Salzberg is super interesting guy imo, but I expect gags and Jamie K to be more entertaining next week.
Also they started hammering beers HU. A+ for that.