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Neil Johnson bounces round like he owns where because, in a way, he does. Johnson is the EPT tournament host and may be the person in command of the arena Cup of Poker, a two-day team event that's approaching its final stages. This morning the team captains, including such luminaries as Team PokerStars Pros Humberto Brenes, Jan Heitmann, David Williams, Noah Boeken and Arnaud Mattern, were gathered in and told about an amendment to the foundations. We collared Johnson to get a clarification of ways the overall heads-up stages are going to play out, straight from the horse's mouth.

Still all to play for

Johnson explains: "We've made a few adjustments. We were going to damage them one to four and five to 8 and that's the reason all they may win but that's changed. We are going to take the eight teams and randomly draw them into two pods of four, not seeded but still a round robin, then we'll seed them then so five plays four, six plays threes, seven plays two and on the end wherever the points fall that's where they finish.

The High Roller final table plays out behind the arena Cup

"Captains play captains and the TLB guys play the TLB guys. They score points all over... We should always finish 8.30-ish. I HOPE that if we get cards within the air we should always have the ability to do all three round robins between five and 7. We must always be capable of get that done because by the point half-an-hour is finished they'll be 25 big blinds at the table. They'll still be capable of play that but not by much. We must always be capable to start the general round of heads up at 7.30pm."

Okay, I FEEL I KNOW HOW that is going to determine. Results for the last round are becoming calculated now and can be posted up once we pay money for them.

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