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Finally the live team have a player through to round two, and it's captain Stewart Scott leading the way with a 2-0 win over Chris Evans.
The final hand saw Evans pushing with but found himself up against Scott's .
The board ran out and Scott takes it down to advance and bring the score to 1-4.
A couple of other members of the live team have also started to turn things around as Lisa Walsh has won her first round match with Aleks Brkovic and Ben Savage has evened up the score at 1-1 against Dean Nyberg.
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Rayan Nathan has made it four from four for the online team, as he has advanced to round two with a 2-0 victory over the much-feared Sam Youssef.
Meanwhile Matthew Pearson has continued the run of the online guys after taking the first leg against Kerry Stead.
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Billy "The Croc" Argyros
It appears that Billy "The Croc" Argyros has decided to take a different approach to the second leg against Andrew Jeffreys.
"I gotta grind him slowly, 'cause if we play a big pot then he'll win!" chuckled Crocky.
It seems to be working, as Jeffreys is down to 1,900 in chips.
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Mat Hawker throught to round two
We have our first completed match, with Mat Hawker eliminating Sean Keeton in straight sets. Keeton was a last minute call up this morning to replace Tony G, but his day didn't last long as Hawker sends the online team into the lead as the first to advance to round two.
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Clonie Gowen
Clonie Gowan has taken the lead in her match with Joel Dodds, when Dodds committed his last 1,675 chips on a flop of with Gowen making the call.
Dodds:
Gowen:
The turn was the and river the to leave Gowen's pair of eights in front as she goes 1-0 up.
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and Lee claps his hands in delight at claiming the first leg of their hard-fought contest.
but found himself up against Scott's 
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and Scott takes it down to advance and bring the score to 1-4.
racing with Elsing's 
and Elsing pairs up on the river to send Aristidou to the rail and advance through to round two.
for a flush on the 
board.
against Tran's 
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turn making him a flush. The 
