Who Needs Board Cards?
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The end of the 6k/12k level is playing out (with no break before the next one) with very few cards visible to anyone other than the players themselves. This doesn't make the preflop action boring - far from it - instead the stacks are such that players can get in a good number of raises before one of them caves or pushes and so there is some real excitement for the rail around the two outer tables.
An example of just such a pot, taken with preflop aggression, was that won by Martin Hruby from button Andreas Wiese. Wiese made the standard raise at the moment, 27k, on the button, and Hruby raised him to 57k. Back to Wiese, who fourbet 132k. Hruby took a little longer to mull over this raise, but made the same decision he'd made last time: to repop him. This bet of 227k finally saw Wiese give up his hand and one of the Day One chip leaders has started the day well.