Slowing Down
Much like yesterday's play around the time of the night, play has pretty much come to a crawl here in the event. Even the chip leader, Jhana Hale, isn't doing much. he's sitting on roughly 185,000, but doesn't seem to be very interested in playing many pots. Last night, Christopher Park grabbed the chip lead and held onto it thanks in large part to his constant aggression against his opponent's. Hale is much more tame, but has more chips than Park finished with last night, so maybe he's just content on making it to the end of the day with nearly 200,000 and not risking much.
Along with Hale, no one else seems that anxious to play ay hands. There is Kenneth Wong who is pretty active, but he was up all night playing cash games right until the start of the day, so he's just about had it with today and would like to get some rest.
There's just over 20 minutes left in play and the clock reads that 55 players remain from the 139 that began the day.