Big Names Battling
Mick "The Hoon" Stanton has made good on his promise of not being around long. He's off to the rail for today.
David Steicke is down to 4,000 chips and looking likely to join Stanton and Portaro.
Trung Tran has plenty of chips (about his starting stack) but hasn't been seen in his seat since very early in the tournament. At this rate that might be a sound strategy, given the amount of chips being spewed around in the early stages.