On Your Marks, Get Set...

The doors have just opened letting in a torrent of players of every nationality, who'd been penned in the casino, but are now taking their seats in the impressive ballroom/theatre/starry-ceilin ged tournament area in anticipation of the start of play. Breakfast at the players' main hotel, so new it's practically shrink-wrapped, has been extended until the poker-sympathetic time of noon, so everyone, regardless of the lateness of their attendance at last night's Pokerstars party, could grab some coffee before their cards.

Thomas Kremser is urging a prompt seating so that the tournament can get underway, and it looks as if it's only a matter of minutes until the start.