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.
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.
The dealer puts out the flop, Anton Makiievskyi checks, Mathew Frankland bets 1,800 and Makiievskyi calls. After burning a card the dealer puts out the on the turn. Makiievskyi checks and calls when Frankland fires a bet of 2,300.
The on the river completes the community cards and both players check.
Makiievskyi reveals as Frankland mucks, stating he had four-high.
Nikita Nikolaev raises to 1,600 and Brian Hastings makes it 4,200 to play and Nikolaev calls. The flop comes down , Hastings bets 4,200 and Nikolaev calls. The turn is the and both players check. The river is the and Hastings checks, Nikolaev bets 12,200 and Hastings instantly calls.
RIchard Toth took a good two hours to finally see off Jefferey Ust in their heads-up battle. Toth said he had his opponent down to 8,000 three times and each time he got back up to 30,000. He takes through 74,300 to tomorrow.
Moments later Fabrice Soulier lost his drawn-out heads-up battle with Massenat Pierrot when his ace-ten lost out to his fellow Frenchman's six-four. Pierrot takes 81,500 into round two.
. Lipshutz was dominated with king-seven and failed to catch-up through the 
and Anton Makiievskyi called with 
from the big blind. The final board ran 
. The November Niner takes through 74,300 to round 2.
landed on the river Stammen bet 4,700 and Sands mucked very quickly.
flop keeps Lipshutz in front but the 
on the turn. Makiievskyi checks and calls when Frankland fires a bet of 2,300.
on the river completes the community cards and both players check.
and both players check. The river is the 