Masaaki Kagawa snd Jussi Nevanlinna (roughly 40k to 20k after Nevanlinna, short for half an hour, got a last minute double through spiking a flush even though Kagawa specifically told the dealer, "No diamond!" and then said, "Bad boy!" when Nevanlinna spiked anyway).
Jeffrey Lisandro and Max Steinburg: Steinburg, despite dropping in chips fairly early has proven a tenacious heads-up opponent and won't be removed. The blinds are now fairly critical for his <18k stack now so it might be worth heading over to keep an eye on these two as the break draws to a close.
Daniel Negreanu, having held a 2:1 plus chip lead for over a level, has finally busted Carlos Mortensen, who was moving his stack around with good timing, picking up the occasional raise and finding Negreanu unwilling to call his all-ins, until preflop which pretty much instantly called Mortensen. He chuckled and may have had a minor swear when he saw this hand - he could only table a dominated and watched the board give Negreanu a straight: . Handshakes and no hard feelings, even a, "Good luck in the next match," from the vanquished Mortensen.
Also from the side room:
Juha Helppi beat Rick Salomon.
Touko Takala beat Praz Bansi.
After turning the tables on Eugene Katchalov, [Removed:283] had him outchipped and moving all in on a board - he'd hit the top with while there was just the middle for Katchalov's . No improvement on the following and [Removed:288] headed off confirming, "Now I have a brek?" Yes - until 10pm - that's two hours which is more than enough time to sample the culinary delights of Chinatown, head into Soho for a break from the Empire, or even catch a movie in Leicester Square (if you miss the trailers).
No, we're only joking - but returning to the realm of truth and facts, Scott Montgomery has been eliminated and Ilari Sahamies will be progressing to Round 2 instead of him.
Nick Schulman is through to round two after downing Peter Jetten. Jetten was short and made his move with pocketsevens and found a willing customer in Schulman with ace-queen. All was looking good for a Jetten double-up until an ace fell on the river.
More tales from the might-never-end front - Mike Matusow has doubled through Sam Stein.
"That's a good spot for me," Matusow was saying rather unnecessarily as we found him all in with against Stein's . And following the four-free board, Matusow was back up to 27,000 and Stein back to 33,000.
Chris Moorman and Andrew Litchenberger were having a ding-dong battle with both claiming leads at certain stages. They just matched up two big hands, both all-in pre-flop and both times Morrman had the best of it going in and coming out.
The first hand saw Mooorman with to Litchenberger's and the board ran .
A few moments later Litchenberger got his last 12,000 in with ace-king but ran into Moorman's pocket aces. Good game.
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preflop which pretty much instantly called Mortensen. He chuckled and may have had a minor swear when he saw this hand - he could only table a dominated 
and watched the board give Negreanu a straight: 
. Handshakes and no hard feelings, even a, "Good luck in the next match," from the vanquished Mortensen.
board - he'd hit the top with 
while there was just the middle for Katchalov's 
. No improvement on the following 
and [Removed:288] headed off confirming, "Now I have a brek?" Yes - until 10pm - that's two hours which is more than enough time to sample the culinary delights of Chinatown, head into Soho for a break from the Empire, or even catch a movie in Leicester Square (if you miss the trailers).
. And following the four-free 
to Litchenberger's 
and the board ran 
.
