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I can confirm this. I just got back and completely agree. They were totally unprepared for the 600+ players that arrived. Harrah's employees had no clue what was going on. They could not answer simple questions about the tournament.Dealers were in fact slow and not getting many hands in per hour. Starting stack size was too small incomparison to the blinds.They better have all of this fixed by the $10k.

If I have something else to look at besides a bunch of guys, then it definitely helps. When I'm in a hand however, its just me and the opponents. I have no clue whats going on around the table.

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Cardplayer hasn't updated yet, but by my calculations the standings will be like this when they factor in the $3,000 NL HE Bellagio event:David Pham - 7,140Daniel Negreanu - 6940John Juanda - 6596Not much of a lead but Daniel and John MUST do well in the next two events and hope that David doesn't win one of them!

David Pham has won the $3,000 buy-in NL HE event at the Bellagio and will take the lead in the Player of the Year race. Daniel and John will have to step it up in the final two events in order to win the Player of the Year award. I am anxious to see how Daniel is doing in the $3,000 PLO event.