Ready for the off
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Players are filtering into the Atlantic City casino’s card room where dealers have ten towers of 20,000 stacks in front of them. A lot of players are starting to sit down and among those are quiet a lot of notables, particularly and unsurprisingly from the Americas. We have PokerStars Team Pros Alex Gomes, Leo Fernandez, Jose Barbero, Veronica Dabul, Andre Akkari, Gualter Salles, Maria Mayrinck, Diego Silva, Greg Debora, Angel Guillen, Christian De Leon, Karlo Lopez and last but not least Dennis Phillips. Other players we’ve spotted include Carter Gill, Aaron Lerner and EPT San Remo final table finisher Michael Piper. Play will start 10-handed and move to 9-handed as soon as possible. Tomorrow (which is 8 hour-long levels away) will see action hit 8-handed. The tournament director is getting ready to drop the flag so stay with us for the knockouts, suckouts and general histrionics.
Please take a moment to appreciate the irony of the tournament taking place in the Atlantic City when the Pacific ocean is but a stone's throw away.