Slow and Steady Wins the Race?
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"Lots of half hands," said one of the other media members. That's definitely the sense I have wandering around the room. While a few players are starting to circle the drain -- Amos Ben Haim, in particular, is down to 3,000 chips -- nobody is making a strong bid for the top. Hands that we expect to produce fireworks fizzle out. I watched one hand that was raised pre-flop to 700, called by the cutoff and button, then re-raised to 3,250 by the small blind. Only the button called the re-raise. I was expecting a big pot on a 
flop, but the small blind's bet of 4,475 took down the pot.
One thing that's certain: I could permanently station myself at Jose "Nacho" Barbero's table and never run out of hands. Barbero is constantly involved in the action. His stack was north of 40,000 in the early part of the day, then dipped as low as 7,000 at one point. Right now he's sitting behind 27,000 but that's liable to change at any moment.