I’m way behind on watching the show this week, but the first hour tells me this:

It’s the table from hell, and no doubt by design.

Picture this sitting at a table: Tony G., Phil Hellmuth, and Mike Matusow. Sitting at either end are Andy Bloch and Sam Farha. And poor Phil Ivey is shrinking away in the corner of the table, rolling his eyes and counting the minutes in his head until the tournament is over.

It’s, by far, the chattiest table of the tournament so far. And with that many loudmouths at the table, I can’t imagine that stopping anytime soon. This will be a very good week for entertainment, but not such a good week for poker skill. All you can do in a situation like this is root for Phil Ivey, who seems to be a better cash game player than tournament player. ::sigh::

But Farha is still the coolest of them all. I just wish they had put him at a table with Chris Moneymaker. Maybe that’s yet to come. . .

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