Mise-en-scène
Level 1
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It's a relatively serene scene in the poker room today, with players gathered around 50 tables at present in most cases quietly battling for small pots. The entire front half of the room is full, while the back quadrants have likewise become populated by players, dealers, and the soft riffling of chips.
We're past the halfway mark of the first 75-minute level of the day, and the big board is showing the total number of entrants for Day 1b creeping up near the 450-player mark. That's well above the 307 who came out on Sunday, although the overall total appears as though it will come up shy of the 889 who participated in the EPT Deauville Main Event last year.
Late registration remains open through the end of Level 2.