Drop an international Series veteran within the corridor between the primary Rio casino and its convention center and she can likely inform you not just the time of day, but in addition the precise stage of the principle Event they've reached.

In the early stages, there's a throbbing throng moving en masse either towards the tournament room or clear of it. They generally run even, desperate to not miss a single second of the most important event in their lives, or to get to a restaurant reservation.

Anybody walking the corridors clear of the gang has usually just been eliminated. Follow them as they pluck a cellphone from their pocket and you will hear the appropriate details. They've usually raised with kings and lost to anything from aces to total garbage that hit at the river. "I COULD NOT give it up," they are saying. "No. I'LL change my flight. I WILL BE back tonight."

Today, those corridors are quiet, and no-one is running anywhere. Within the minutes before Day 6 began, 80 players slowly paced towards the Amazon Room, often pursued by a phalanx of cameras. Three separate floor producers tried to encourage a skip or a whoop from Kenny Hallaert, to make use of just one example. However the stoic Belgian was focused only being focused. He clenched his first and gave a lacklustre "Day six!" on the final. It should not make the edit.

Hallaert's poker will certainly feature at the TV, though. He's up there at the television stage in conjunction with the talkative William Kassouf. There have been 80 of them at the beginning of the day. There are just 70 now, an hour into play.

The plan is to play five two-hour levels or to 27 players, whichever is later. That implies that in the event that they get all the way down to the last three tables soon-ish, they'll play on until the five levels are done even though. might be around midnight, wherein point everyone could be guaranteed no less than $269,430.

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