Interestingly, with a final table of nine players required, play at the moment is currently being played as two five-handed tables. This generally is a good thing, as it stimulates more action than a full ten-handed table. The only problem is that due to the money jump between 10th and 9th place, play is currently hand-for-hand on both tables to ensure one table does not gain an advantage by playing less/more hands than the other.
This in turn slows down the entire tournament which is not really what anyone wants as we approach 1am and the 13th hour of this tournament.