Echo, Echo

We're pretty used to the relative silence that dominates no-limit hold'em tournaments, as compared to other forms of tournament poker, but it seems incredibly quiet in here today. The total lack of table talk is amplified by the cavernous confines of the tournament room, a sixty-foot by sixty-foot ballroom with a twenty-foot ceiling. There are eleven tables in play, all clustered in the front left corner of the room beneath a projector screen that is showing a spring training baseball game between Tampa Bay and Minnesota.