Take Your Places

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The Penn & Teller Theater is open, and fans are streaming down the aisles to take their seats for what many hope will be an epic heads-up match. The line of people waiting to get in before doors opened stretched out the theater and down the hall past the Sao Paolo Cafe, but there was less pomp and pageantry than yesterday.

According to the official schedule, the Player of the Year presentation will take place ten minutes from now, at 9:55pm local time. Erick Lindgren won Player of the Year this year and will be presented with a custom, engraved Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

A few minutes after that, Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate will unbag and stack their chips. When they're ready to go, Jeffrey Pollack will welcome us all back before turning the microphone over to legendary emcee Michael Buffer for the player introductions.

If everything stays on schedule, cards will be in the air at 10:04pm with just less than nine minutes left on the clock in Level 37.