Taking a Rain-check, or Taking it Full Steam Ahead
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It looks like UK player John Eames was originally intending to go for the first flight option but upon arriving today changed his mind and has left the 101 (and slowly rising) players to battle through the admittedly fairly tough looking Day 1A lineup. Also floating around but unclear whether they're going to be at the felt today: Praz Bansi, Alan Baekke, Javed Abrahams and Andrew Teng.
Meanwhile chips are flying out of the 30,000 starting stacks and into quick-fire pots left and right; never one to sit wallfloweresque at the start of a 30,000 stacked tournament, John Kabbaj wasn’t keen to pass to a threebet from the small blind right off the bat which bumped their heads up preflop pot to 3,500. A flop of 
brought two fairly rapid checks, but Kabbaj passed to his opponent’s 1,500 bet when the turn brought the 
.
In the first half hour I don't think there's been anything which counts as a dwell of any sort. One player gave a clear example of the phrase, "beat him into the pot" with a set of nines on a 
board. He check-called the river 3,500 so fast it would need a photo-finish kit to tell whose chips hit the felt first. It was good.