Players Take Their Seats
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The crowd forming around the bar and cloakroom has started to stream into the tournament area now, checked by security for their 'player' wristbands. Among them are several players more used to playing Stateside, judging by the accents in the queue...
Peter Eastgate, WSOP champ 2008 is officially Out Of Retirement, here, and presumably up at this time because he's a Day 1a-er, as is Annette Obrestad, Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern, EPT Vienna finalist Luca Cainelli and Norwegian sensation Rolf 'Woody' Woods.
After the excitement of the Scandinavian Poker Awards last night, a midday start is going to be tough on a few of these ladies and gents, and there may be a couple of hours of late entries as people drift in from the late breakfast here at the Radisson (1pm finish!).