The tournament has now passed the 160 players remaining mark – that is to say, there are players on just 20 tables – and the money bubble is looming. The clock has been paused for a few minutes to deploy tablets on each table that will be used as a shot clock from now until the end of the tournament.
Each player will have no more than 30 seconds to make decisions, and each player has been given a total of 6 time extension cards to be used for particularly difficult decisions.
Cards are now back in the air, and play will continue until hand-for-hand play arrives, a little closer to the actual money bubble.