Familiar Faces

At first sweep of the field, there are familiar faces scattered like confetti throughout the room. So far, the top-tier pros are pretty well spaced out, but we expect many of the empty seats will be filled with sharks within the next two hours.

Here's a partial list of some of the notables who've already taken their seats. Many more to come.

Roland de Wolfe (wearing neon green headphones)
Jason Mercier (sitting to de Wolfe's left)
Bill Edler
Theo Tran
Erik Seidel
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (the very first player to arrive today)
Marc Naalden (still wearing his new bracelet)
Noah Schwartz
Ivan Demidov
Thomas Wahlroos
Shaun Deeb
Toto Leonidas (sitting to Deeb's left)
David Pham
Greg Raymer (very talkative already)
Nenad Medic (defending champion)
Josh Arieh

There are also four women in the field so far:
Kathy Liebert
Vanessa Rousso
Liya Gerasimova
Vicky Coren