It's so busy here in Casino Barcelona, that not all players are seated right now. There's an alternate list where at least a hundred players are on, and they'll have to wait till seats free up before they can play.
There's also a qualifier to the Main Event going on at the moment on the main casino floor. But those tables weren't to be used for the Main Event in the first place, according to the organization:
@scott_seiver The sat. is being run in the casino on casino-owned tables, never intended to be used as tournament tables. They are on lease to us for exactly four hours, at which time they revert back to cash game tables. Were we to use them as ME tables they wouldn't finish within 4 hours. The sat was always on the sched., so by running in casino, we create more room 4 ME
EPT Monte Carlo champion Pieter de Korver and Sam Grafton have been eliminated from the tournament. Both their seats were empty.
A former table mate of De Korver told us that the Dutchman had shoved blind for his remaining ten big blinds from the small blind. The big blind made the call with and was ahead of De Korver's off suit. De Korver didn't improve and left the tournament.
Sam Grafton's former table mates were a bit more vague about the bust out that had happened. Though a story of an open, call from Jamilla von Perger and an over call from Grafton was started, and we heard something about a check jam on , soon the table agreed that we just had to write that it was a spewy move that ended Grafton's tournament. "As long as you add a smiley" they laughed.
So here we go:
"He fired three streets and I called him down with jack-high" we heard, but we all take that with a grain of salt. Just one thing is sure: Grafton is no longer active in the tournament.