Greetings, and welcome back to the Empire Casino here at Leicester Square for this rare 5.30pm start. The current plan is to play four 90 minute levels sans dinner break, meaning we'll be looking at a 1am finish.
At time of writing, we're just one minute away from the scheduled start, although few players are in their seats and the ESPN crew are still making last minute adjustments. "Cards will be back in the air within about 10 minutes," announced Jack Effel. "About eight minutes would be my best educated guess."