Dropping fast to start the day

As we often see in multi-day events, especially at lower buy-ins such as this, the tournament is moving extremely quickly as players try and improve the short stacks they started with and are eliminated by the larger stacks. From the 347 players who started the day the event is already down to about 300 players, and from 39 tables to start the day (play is 9-handed) there are now just 34 still active.