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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
The two matches on table 23 have concluded. Mark Everett bettered Stuart Rutter and Scott Palmer beat Nicolas Wong.
There is a 20 minute break for all the remaining players in round one.
Comprising:
Tom Dwan (41,500) vs. Ilya Trincher (18,5000)
Mike Matusow vs. Sam Stein (roughly even in chips)
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.
