It’s quite amazing how fast a poker player is capable of spending €8,000. Less than two minutes after Mr. Kremser gave the command to ‘shuffle up and deal,’ we saw our first casualty of the day. On a board showing , Malmai Csaba of Hungary got all 15,000 of his chips into the pot holding pocket aces and was challenged by an unknown opponent who tabled queens. The board filled out , and Csaba’s aces held up giving him the early chip lead.