Overheard at the Tables

"It's really hot in my room," said Bryan Colin. "I couldn't figure out the A/C so I just slept on top of my sheets."

Alec Torelli and Melissa Hayden were engaged in a more intellectual conversation about competing value systems about whether a player with a sponsorship contract should be forced to play on a religious holiday.

The crux of the conversation seemed to deal with the fact that Day 1b of the WSOP Europe Main Event falls during the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the day of Jewish atonement.

"If the players don't complain enough then the casinos do whatever they want," said Torelli. "Mike should make a one-year investment and not play in protest."

"Team Full Tilt can't make you play on your religious holiday," Torelli continued. "It's like when you were in school."

"I understand that," Hayden replied, "but he also wants to promote his own personal site."