Cliff Josephy and James Dempsey are heads up and it was Josephy who just picked up a pot just now.
On a board reading 
Josephy bet 1,400 and Dempsey called. The river brought the 
into play and Josephy bet 2,000, forcing a fold from the Brit.
It took a fairly cold hand to see Daniel Negreanu bust in third spot from his table.
He was in the big blind and faced a raise from Tobias Reinkemeier from the small blind. He decided to three-bet call it off with 
. Reinkemeier was at there with 
though and the board ran 
.
Terrence Chan opened the betting from the cutoff at the four-handed table with a raise to 1,000. Martins Adeniya, fresh from his final table appearance in the EPT London Main Event, three-bet to 2,850, forcing out the blinds. Chan sat motionless before springing into life and moving all in for 9,200.
Adeniya counted out the necessary chips but found a fold at the last moment.
Taylor Paur, the former number one ranked tournament player on the internet, is safely through to round two after winning his table.
Paur will start Day 2 with 81,800 chips.
The action is on David "Doc" Sands and he raises to 850. Next to act is Ben Lamb and he makes it 2,500 to play. Back on Sands and he takes his initial bet back, replacing it with five yellow 1,000 chips. Lamb then pauses and moves all in and Sands quickly calls.
| Sands |   |
| Lamb | |
Board: 
and Lamb is out of Event #3.
James Dempsey has defeated Cliff Josephy heads-up to take 74,600 through to round two.
He told us that Josephy ran well heads-up but (crucially) ran bad in all the larger three-bet pots. The American was down to 20 big blinds when raise called it off with king-nine. He admitted it was a frustration call and must've been even more frustrated when he saw that Dempsey had ace-king, which held.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Table 6 was won by John Armbrust and he takes through 73,800.
Table 12 was won by Sean Getzwiller and he through 75,700.
Table 20 was won by Salvatore Bianco and takes through 74,600.
Richard Toth raises to 1,200 and Ami Alibay three-bets to 3,500. Toth pauses before moving all in, covering Alibay by a large amount of chips.
"Will you show if I fold?" asks Alibay but Toth remains stoic.
After around one minute Alibay folds and shows but Toth mucks.
"I never show, sorry, " apologises Toth but he did tell his opponent that he held an ace.
On a flop reading 
, John Eames checks from the big blind position, Matt Stout bets 2,000 from the cutoff, Chad Brown calls on the button and Eames gets out of the way.
The dealer places the 
on the turn and Stout greets it with a bet of 4,600, a bet that Brown watses no time in calling. The river is the 
and Stout leans over to check the size of Brown's stack, leans back and checks. Brown bets a pile of yellow chips and Stout angrily tosses his cards in the air, revealing 
, saying it was a sick river. Eames said he thought the check on the river meant Stout had been counterfeited. Brown picks up the pot.
