You'd think that people would turn up on time for the bubble round in a £10,000 tournament - but there's always someone whose alarm fails to go off, isn't there?
Two lucky gentlemen who get to steal their absent opponent's blinds exactly once a minute are Neil Channing who is waiting for the absent Chris Moorman, and Huck Seed, who is meant to be playing Ilari Sahamies right now.
We were actually also missing a whole match at the start of the level as well, although Yevgeniy Timoshenko has now turned up and is awaiting the arrival of Ram Vaswani.
We should mention at this juncture that this is actually the bubble round - every who wins their third round match will be £22,847 richer, while everyone who loses this match will go home with nothing.
Good afternoon and welcome back to the Casino at the Empire, where our 32 remaining £10,000 Heads-Up hopefuls will shortly be starting the first of the three rounds that will get us down to a semi-final.
Yesterday we lost Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda and Tom Dwan, among others. Still in the field, though, are Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Neil Channing. Today might be a long one - our three rounds are due to start at 3pm, 7pm and 11pm but it wouldn't surprise us if we ran over - but by golly, as they say, it's going to be a good one.
The Round 3 seat draw looks like so; we'll be back at 3pm.
Howard Lederer vs. Shawn Buchanan
Ilari Sahamies vs. Huck Seed
Martin Kabrhel vs. Matt Jarvis
Jim Collopy vs. Scott Fischman
Sondre Svanevik vs. Daniel Steinberg
Kevin Eyster vs. Ludovic Lacay
Justin Adams vs. Marius Torbergsen
Ram Vaswani vs. Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Amit Makhija vs. McLean Karr
Neil Channing vs. Chris Moorman
Jani Sointula vs. Phil Ivey
Mark Everett vs. Gus Hansen
Mori Eskandani vs. Andrew Feldman
Saar Wilf vs. Talal Shakerchi
Andrew Robl vs. Touko Takala
Chance Kornuth vs. Daniel Negreanu
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up
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