Nine Hands, No Eliminations

"Hand number nine," said Jack Effel over the loudspeaker, indicating we've just begun the ninth hand of hand-for-hand play.

The pace of play has slowed to an absolute crawl, though a few of the bigger stacks -- Yevgeniy Timoshenko one of them -- remain active, in an effort to pad their stacks at a time when many players tend to tighten up.

Stay with us... we expect poppage at any moment now!