Andrew Lichtenberger is back into the lead against Chris Moorman. Lichtenberger made it 1,500 to go only for Moorman to three-bet to 4,300. It didn't take long for Lichtenberger to move in and Moorman folked after 30 seconds thought to move down to 27,000.
Level: 5
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
Apart from Mike Matusow (sat behind us and therefore even more audible) these players have been mostly very quiet, just getting down to the business of busting each other as efficiently and quickly as possible. But Daniel Negreanu and Carlos Mortensen seem to be having a bit of a chat, even when it's a rueful one over the river. Not too many early big pots, but Negreanu did call down Mortensen who had a straight on a 
board with 
and got about 5k total out of him.
"Another set?" he asked with an eyebrow-raise, prompting a wonder whether the even stacks might be misleading, and there'd been a lot of early action in their corner...
"Two pair," said Negreanu, mucking.
After a good start, Arnaud Mattern is probably not feeling like it's his birthday any more, as he plummeted towards the felt and was all in for his last 7,000 with 
when we found him. We're not sure when the chips went in, but John Racener was holding 
for the better hand by the end of the 
board, and it's back to the bar for the French pro.
Our friends in the French press were keeping a very close eye on their boys, and were fdelighted to report to us that Ludovic Lacay joins the hordes of those progressing to Round 2.
He had five sixths of the chips in play when he saw a 
flop. Alexander Roumeliotis bet out, then three-bet all in to a raise from Lacay. On their backs, and Roumeliotis' 
was drawing very thin indeed against Lacay's 
. A couple blanks later, and Lacay was through.
Brandon Cantu is the latest to fall. He got it in good with 
to Ben Cherif's 
but the board came 
.
Level: 6
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
After being down to a point where Amit Makhija was open-shoving any opportunity he had, he has now taken a large lead over Viktor "I just might be Isildur1" Blom. The final swing of the ax from Makhija came on a 
board, after Blom check-raised the flop.
Blom bet enough on the turn to essentially put Makhija all in, and Makhija made the call showing down the 
which was slightly ahead of the which was drawing very live with both flush and straight outs.
The on the river, however would be no help to Blom and Makhija was shipped the largest pot of the match. Makhija now has about 47,000, while Blom is left with about 13,000.
Although the majority of the first round matches are finished or looking pretty one-sided right now, a couple of them are still anyone's game.
Among those who are still roughly even in chips are Eugene Katchalov vs. EPT Vilamoura €10,000 side event champion [Removed:283], and also Tom Dwan vs. Ilya Trincher - the latter have further drawn the match out by taking a five minute break.
Meanwhile Scott Montgomery was taking the upper hand over Ilari Sahamies, but perhaps Montgomery's girlfriend Annette Obrestad at the rail is acting as a kind of cooler because just now Sahamies doubled up to put them back at even stacks.
Sahamies: 
Montgomery: 
Board: 
It was a quick end to things once Viktor Blom got short-stacked vs. Amit Makhija, and the two got the rest of the chips in with Makhija holding pocket jacks, and Blom [9x}. The board was no help to Blom, and Makhija will move on to the round of 64,
