The Bubble Beckons
Hand-for-hand play with this many tables -- 37 -- can provide an occasionally curious-looking scene as one looks out across the room.
Tourney officials have done a good job thus far preventing players from getting up and milling about as they wait for hands to complete on the other tables, the threat of a penalty having successfully kept everyone seated. It helps, too, as far as being able to keep better track of how things are proceeding.
Once a hand is completed at each table, the dealer then stands. Thus can one see at a glance which tables have finished and which are not. Finally comes the point where all of the dealers are standing, at which time the tourney director directs them all to sit back down with the call to "shuffle up and deal."
We've made it through four hands thus far, losing only one player. Two to go to the money.