[Easy E]

<font color="blue">145 players, never more than 100 at once. Usual cap is 90 but they opened a 10th table just before the start. As people got knocked out, "alternates" took their place with T500 in chips all during the first hour. That whole alternate scheme was asinine and I would have left if I wasn't seated at the start</font>

Why? What's wrong with bringing in extra players at short stack to pad your prize pool? Isn't it better to face a bunch of 1000s than to play through a 145 field when the stacks are larger by the time you get to the same people?