Ok, 2 people on my steam friends list who have maxed out potatoes in their profile are now shown on the steam portal 2 store page as playing the game.
Its looking like Valve not only scammed people in making the pre-planned release time not change at all, they scammed people saying to "help release portal 2 early" when it really meant "get golden potatoes to play the game 10 hours early, everyone else waits until tomorrow morning to play"
Or maybe the rest of us only have to wait another 20 mins. I hope.