Vive le Benjo
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Amid the sea of live pros, online qualifiers and everything inbetween, is one completely different animal.
More at home in the media room - complaining, looking at Youtube, posting on Twitter and very occasionally updating his blog - than actually seated at the tables, Benjamin Gallen is a true poker media legend. The defining voice of French poker (though so often that voice is saying something that sounds to us like, "Boos**t"), "Benjo" as he prefers to be known is a permanent fixture on the international poker circuit and a familiar face to anyone who has spent time on the tournament floor.
As PokerNews blogger change100 says, Benjo has, "Been to more EPTs than I've been to Phish shows," but it has always been in his capacity as French media guru. This time around though he is witnessing the action from the other side of the felt - through means unknown to the rest of us in the press room (wouldn't it be a fine thing if tournament reporting paid us enough to buy into these things ourselves), Benjo is taking his own shot at EPT glory today in Tallinn.
Just now we witnessed him calling a bet on a 
flop before checking behind to his opponent's check on the 
turn. The opponent checked the 
river and this time Benjo fired out 1,600. His opponent called, and Benjo discovered that he was actually rather fortunate to chop the pot, his 
catching up with his opponent's 
on the river.
Benjo is at a slightly below average 27,000, and the whole press room, living vicariously through him, is watching his every move.