The Defending Champ, and a Few Others
The aforementioned Brian Lemke is in the house today, sitting at Table 36 with nine unfamiliar faces.
Since that's not much of a post by itself, we'll give a shout out to some of the other bracelet winners in the field today.
Like, for example, TJ Cloutier who has taken a breather from the pits to come play some poker in the Pavillion. He has six bracelets, he looks like a chocolate chip cookie, and he's sitting with Allen Bari and Chris Bell over on Table 8.
Vitaly Lunkin is in our field, as are Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, and Simon Watt, who just joined the bracelet club about 36 hours ago.
It's not a bracelet, but Nacho Barbero is also here, fresh off the second of his back-to-back LAPT titles in South America. He's sharing table space with Mercier.