Shuffle Up and Deal

Tournament Director Jack Effel just delivered the directive to dealers to start dealing, and we're underway.

As is the case with other events at this year's World Series of Poker, players are starting with "triple stacks," meaning in this case 4,500 chips for their $1,500 buy-in.

With the blinds starting at 25/50, and limits 50/100, that means everybody is starting with 90 BBs or 45 big bets.