A Grumpy Start
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This is one of the more unhappy tournament fields we've seen in a good while, if we're honest. For starters, the media in attendance are a bit peeved at the lack of a table draw now 20 minutes into the day. But the players seem to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed as well.
There was a long disturbance at Josh Arieh's table that involved a player whose name we don't know. Mr. Unknown apparently grabbed his big blind out of the pot as he faced a raise from Arieh (as if he were contemplating reraising), then mucked and put his chips back into the pot. Arieh was fuming mad, and he and Darryll Fish had a long conversation with the floorman. They argued that the player's angle was a ploy to get free information. As we walked away, Arieh was just finishing with, "I just hope it doesn't happen again. There's no reason to ever, ever grab money that's already in the pot."
At the adjacent table, there was a another floor call in progress as well. Amnon Filippi and Isaac Haxton were arguing that there weren't enough T25 green chips on each table to keep the action moving smoothly. The floorman said he'd make a note of the issue and take a look at it for future events, but Filippi pressed the issue. "How hard is it to grab some more chips and make some change? You're telling me that's going to interrupt the flow of the tournament?" The discussion went back and forth for about five minutes before the floorman surrendered.
He was last seen walking away from the table, head down, arms in the air.