LAS VEGAS–Good morning. It’s good to see you all again. We’re half way through the 2007 WSOP, and Pokerati is working correctly. Fingers crossed — there still could be a glitch or five that we haven’t found yet since tearing the whole thing down and rebuilding it. But for the most part, it seems we’re once again an interactive medium for gratuitously snarky pseudojournalism. We’re also on a newer, more powerful server, so though the site is still a tad clunky — my fault, not the programmer’s — it should run much more smoothly than loyal Pokeratizens are used to. I hope you all can handle it.

Of course the downside is that this means that I have to get back to work blogging. (Tom, it would help if you could win another bracelet — just don’t win too many until we’ve driven a few miles on the new engine. Michele, you should win a bracelet, too. But still hold off on the bikini pics, cool?) It was quite pleasurable being able to blame several days of personal downtime on “technical issues.” But now the Series is full-on, and we look forward to bringing at least a sliver of it to you.