Keven Stammen and David Sands have been fighting it out heads up for almost three hours now and the match is no closer to a resolution.
In a hand just now both players checked the 
board but when the 
landed on the river Stammen bet 4,700 and Sands mucked very quickly.
Mathew Frankland's housemates were waiting for his heads-up match to finish so they could give him a ride home but decided to leave as they thought his heads-up battle was going to go on a while too long. They were wrong and he has to get a cab home now as well to add to the cost of losing 3k.
He open shoved his last 18,000 from the the button with 
and Anton Makiievskyi called with 
from the big blind. The final board ran 
. The November Niner takes through 74,300 to round 2.
Tristan Wade has just defeated Oleh Okhotskyi over on Table 2 to progress to the second day of play. Wade takes 81,500 chips with him.
Wade commended his opponent on a solid heads up match as he left the table and headed for the rail.
Jose De la Guardia and Scott Lipshutz were one of the first pairs of players to make it to heads-up, but it took a few hours for one of them to finally succumb.
The last hand saw De la Guardia call his opponent's shove with 
. Lipshutz was dominated with king-seven and failed to catch-up through the 
board. The man from Panama looked exhausted but overjoyed at making it through with 74,300 chips.
Brian Hastings is sporting a "Micros" t-shirt and has just been in a hand that Chase Berger, Tommy Phuoc and Rose Ballenger would have been proud of.
On a 
board, Nikita Nikolaev checked, Hastings bet 2,800 and Nikolaev called. The river was the and again Nikolaev checked. Hastings paused before moving all in for 11,500 and after 90 seconds Nikolaev made the call.
"Flush," said Hastings before turning over 
. The low flush was good as Nikolaev mucked.
Event #1 winner Guilluame Humbert has been eliminated at the hands of Adrien Allain, the man who tortured Phil Hellmuth in the same event.
Humbert was all in and at risk with 
against the 
. The baord ran out 
.....
and with that Allain is through to Day 2 with 73,700 chips.
Terrance Chan came back from a big heads-up deficit against Nicolas Cardyn to move onwards with 81,600 chips.
Cardyn limped in from the button and then shoved when Chan made it another 2,000 to go. Chan called to create the showdown.
Cardyn: 
Chan 
The board ran 
.
Chan said he felt that he could and maybe should have been beaten him, but when he won a big hand it seemed as if his opponent gave up slightly.
Level eight has come to an end and the players have gone on a five minute break.
Level: 9
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Maria Ho and David Sands have been eliminated at the hands of Kirill Telezhkin and Keven Stammen respectively.
Stammen takes 81,300 through with him to Day 2 whilst Telezhkin will be armed with 81,900.
