Snacks of the Stars

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Dinner was only just recently served to our high rollers (leek and potato soup, followed by a large fishcake accompanied by a single, enormous prawn), but many of them seem unsatisfied by such lowly fare. Here is what they have been snacking on in between meals.

Johan Van Til: regulation Grosvenor issue ham and cheese sandwich.

Phil Ivey: Merba brand Dark Chocolate And Hazelnut Cookies (a "delicious blend of chocolate and hazelnuts", in case you were in any doubt). The cookie sugar rush seems to have been doing him good -- before he started munching he was down to 7,675; post-cookie he was making a recovery, clawing his way back up to 10,600.

Neil Channing: What else but champagne? Actually he's not drinking champagne, but told me that yesterday a valet knocked over a glass that was almost empty and apparently belonged to no one. The valet apologized to Channing and asked him if he'd like a glass of champagne on the house to make up for the one he knocked over. Channing, obviously, accepted. The Irish Open champion and now-legendary picker of excellent horses (for example James Akenhead who won $500,000 in Vegas this summer) clearly can't afford his own champagne.

Tags: Johan Van Til Neil Channing Phil Ivey