Due to space constraints at the Empire Casino, the field is broken up into three different sections. The poker room on the first floor houses nine tables. There is a feature table in a swanky private room on the second floor along with four other tables near the entrance. The tables outside the poker room will be broken first.
There are eight small yellow plastic buttons on the poker tables. The dealers are using those to keep track of the number of hands that they are dealing. A new game is played after every eight hands. Betting levels are 100 minutes in length.
Mark Vos has come to play. I've just seen him win three big stud hands back to back and he is up to a healthy looking 14,000.
David Williams has just arrived late looking a little stressed out. He rushed to his seat, won a pretty big Omaha hand and rushed away from his seat again to find a waitress to get him a much needed mineral water.