Whether it's a broken table, or simply a case of moving the big blind(s), us lucky chappies upstairs have been graced with the presence of two of England's finest grinders, the likes of which would make a rock look like a wet sponge, in Ryan 'Boyband' Fronda and Neil 'Bad Beat' Channing.
Although easily perplexed and spending most of their time in search of their table, they're still plugging away, Neil with 26,300, Ryan on 26,300.
Johnny Lodden moved all in with and was called by an opponent with . Neither player improved their hand on the board, and much to the delight of his hot blonde railbirds, he doubled his stack.
Although we've been blessed with the iconic presence of Johnny Chan, the crowd is surprisingly thin on the ground, unlike the frantic bedlam of yesterday. Perhaps it's due to the contrasting personalities of who's appearing - whilst Hellmuth is guaranteed to put on a show, Chan is more likely to sit in silence for the duration of the day, and thus not be of much interest to a pack of action-hungry spectators.
In fact, everything up here seems to be fairly subdued, the players still in bed-time mode and playing in a rather lack-lustre fashion. Maybe it's just a lack of cards at the right times, but I'm in dire need of a big pot to spice things up.
As a certain British commentator once said, "The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you'd hear the vinegar sizzle on them."
Snoppy's model friend, Patrik Antonius began the day as the chipleader. All though he's no longer at the top of the pack, he's still as stunning as ever.
According to our fashion reporter, Change100, "He's wearing his Martin's Poker shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest. in the words of Rachael Ray, 'Yum-o!'"
On one table, gregarious Jeff Buffenbarger (known as 'Michigan Jeff' over here in the UK where that is an exotic moniker) had moved in over the top of under the gun raiser Henrik Waltersson. Jimmy Fricke had called in the middle, but the dwell was coming from yet-to-act Julien Bertazzon. Bertazzon eventually called the 17,500 and the rest got out of the way.
Bertazzon:
Buffenbarger:
The board came low with not a hint of a diamond, and the Luton regular doubles up.
At the same time, Brendan Walls was all-in against the pair (Fours) with the overcards (A-Q) and again the pair stood up, busting the Betfair qualifier.
A lot of the UK players are complaining about not getting dealt any decent hands. Most are nursing short stacks and telling their friends "One double up and I'll be ok".
Gus Hansen never gets any hands and he is doing ok.
Nicolas Levi, suavely behatted Frenchman, just took most of Johnny Lodden's stack when his spiked a third Queen for good measure after he got it all in preflop against Lodden's .
The kilt-wearing Gerry Kane has been busted off the featured TV table. He was involved in a raising war pre-flop with Magnus Persson. They eventually got all their money in.
Kane:
Persson:
The flop was and Persson took the lead. The turn was the and the river was the . Kane's pocket Aces were cracked and he headed to the rail.
Persson increased his stack to 120,000, which puts him into the Top 5 in chips at the moment.