Through the first dozen or so hands, the players aren’t really getting out of line and are circling each other like the sharks they are.

Despite a few all-ins preflop, there have been no all-in calls. The only flop seen in the last half of a level came when Steve Wazwaz raised to 500,000 from the button and small blind, Josh Meyer called, and a flop came out of . Wazwaz wagered 1,000,000 after Meyer checked, and took the pot.

Meyer maintains his slight 4,500,000ish lead over Wazwaz’s 3,500,000ish chip stack at this year’s Iowa State Championship.