
Another player departs leaving three tables of eight, the most notable being table three, a thorough going bruiser featuring a line up that can only cause tremors in the time continuum. Denis Phillips, Jason Mercier, ElkY, Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, Isaac Haxton, Michael Fosco and Hansen make this an encounter of the unlikely kind, like they'd been flung here at speed by some massive physics experiment and all that's left is to wait to see how bright is the explosion.
Blinds are up, now set at 800-16,000 with a running ante of 200. One of that list has won a high roller event before. Jason Mercier talked to us earlier today about this one...
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