No Stalling
A few players had concerns that some of the shorter stacks were taking too long to make decisions now they were two off the money bubble and it was slowing the game down on some tables. They wanted it to go hand for hand immediately rather than wait for one more player to get knocked out.
Scott Seiver put the case to the tournament director but it was turned down as it had never happened before and they didn’t want to set a precedent now, no matter what the special conditions. Instead the floor made an announcement that the position of the dealer button had been noted on each table and if one was taking significantly longer than the others there would potentially be a penalty for slow play. There was to be no deliberate stalling.
There will be one more player to lose, then there will be a table break and the tournament will go hand for hand until the bubble bursts.