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Liv Boeree was never behind in her match on the feature table against Jason Alexander. She had Alexander all in once but both players had the same hand, 
. A short time later Alexander was all in again -- with 
against Boeree's 
. Alexander stood up and leaned forward over the rail. Boeree out-flopped him, 
. Alexander was bounced out of the tournament with running treys, 
.
Olivier Busquet got it in against Dwyte Pilgrim in about as flippy a flip as you can engineer.
Busquet: 
Pilgrim:
Pilgrim went from flipping to drawing completely dead on the 
flop. In a scientific count, Pilgrim was declared to have "not a lot of chips, really not very many chips at all."
Andy Bloch knows a thing or two about getting unlucky heads-up. He found his first taste of it today when he was dealt 
at the same time as short-stacked John Juanda was dealt 
. All the chips were in pre-flop, with the pot pushed to Juanda on a board of 
. He's still trailing Bloch but their match is now much closer.
Ayaz Mahmood moved all in on the turn of a board reading 
. Annette Obrestad sat frozen in the tank while Mahmood chomped on his gum and stared off into the distance, trying to look as calm as possible. After a few tense minutes, he called the clock, which only gives players another 30 seconds to make their decisions in this event. Obrestad finally decided on a call, putting herself at risk.
Obrestad: 
for a flush draw
Mahmood: 
for trip aces
The 
river was heartless for Annette, and she and her posse are already out the door. Mahmood is on his way to making a name for himself among the tv-watching set, but he'll have to get through Barry Greenstein in the next round to keep it going.
Scotty Nguyen was the last player to arrive on stage for the Clubs Bracket Round of 64 matches. He's also the first player to exit the stage. Trailing in his match against Barry Greenstein, Nguyen called all in on a flop of 
. Nguyen was drawing with a king-high flush draw, 
, against Greenstein's flopped two pair, 
. The turn 
gave Greenstein a full house and left the Prince of Poker drawing dead. Greenstein advances.
Because there hasn't been a single pause for a called all in yet, the timers at each table all went off (more or less) simultaneously. Blinds are up to 200-400 now. Recall that each player started with 25,000 in chips.
Clubs bracket sunglasses report: Three of the 16 are going incognito this afternoon. Jason Alexander, Nicolas Chouity, and Dwyte Pilgrim are wearing shades.
Cards in the air for bracket number two.
Scotty Nguyen was late - a little more than fashionably - as usual. After several calls to the set, they announced they were starting in two minutes with or without him. Production revved up the crowd to cheer for Leann Tweeden's intro, and they were mid-cheer as Nguyen arrived on set. He was perfectly happy to act like he'd been waiting for the proper pomp and circumstance to make his grand entrance.
The clubs bracket certainly lives up to its name, providing what we expect to be the most lively matches of the day. The feature table has a huge chunk of air time locked up with the lovely Liv Boeree facing off against George Costanza himself, Jason Alexander. He tweeted this morning that he'd "Been thinking how 2 defeat Liv Boeree in poker today. Gonna try not finding her attractive. That'll freak her out. Unless she calls my bluff."
Dwyte Pilgrim, known for some of the most jaw-droppingly irreverent commentary ever uttered at a tv table, is going up against Olivier "LivB" Busquet, a last minute addition to the line up. We can't help but notice that if he wins his match and Liv wins hers, the next round will be LivB v. Liv Boeree.
Ayaz Mahmood, the reigning World Series of Poker Heads-Up Champion, is seated opposite everyone's favorite baby-faced online phenom, Annette Obrestad. Andy Bloch is rocking his usual cowboy hat to face John Juanda. Jason Mercier will attempt to eat Ted Forrest at his own game. Oops, we mean beat. Barry Greenstein will sit silently, half asleep, at one end of the table while Scotty Nguyen shticks it up on the other. The current champion of the world, Jonathan Duhamel, takes on a man of the people, qualifier Melburn Whitmire. And Nicholas Chouity, winner of the European Poker Tour's 2010 Grand Final in Monte Carlo, is staring down the magician himself, Antonio Esfandiari, in front of a rail full of Esfandiari's family.
