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This has been quite a back and forth heads-up battle.

Daniel seems to be grinding down Shulman's stack. He's winning a lot of small-ish pots right now.

It looks like they are about where they started from heads up. Shulman won 250,000 of Daniel, who won those chips back a short time later.

Betfair's coverage seems to be working fine.

Great comeback from the short stack. Now it's time to close the deal and win it.

I'm in.

GL Dan. He still has a lot of blinds left, so he can be patient and chip up.

Elky just beat him.On the fifth hand of heads up play, Phil Hellmuth raiased on the button and Bertrand Grospellier reraised. Hellmuth moved all in and Grospellier made the call, having him covered.Hellmuth showed QQ, but he was crushed by Grospellier's AA.The board safely rolled out 10-8-3-10-2 and Hellmuth was eliminated, earning $75,000. Grospellier will now move on to face the winner between Vanessa Rousso and Daniel Negreanu.

Daniel cruised past Dario and into the money. Dario went all in after the turn with an inside straight draw, Daniel had Kings and the river didn't give Dario the straight and Daniel moves on to face the winner of Forrest/Nguyen.

Daniel vs. Minieri should be an interesting match. I would be surprised if a single hand is won pre-flop because of their styles.

Daniel beat Moneymaker. Moneymaker had A-K and Daniel had pocket 9's. Negreanu flopped a set and dodged Moneymaker's straight draw by making a full house 9's full of queens on the river to beat Moneymaker.

Your bracket got busted already. David Williams took out JC Tran in round 1.

I don't see Matusow getting out of round 1 against Dario. Dario plays a ton of heads-up sit and go's online and with his aggressive style, he'll be tough for Matusow to deal with.

I wish the hosts at Poker Road would actually talk about the bracket and not other stuff. The guy rattled off the Diamond Bracket so fast, I couldn't keep track. It makes want to bang my head on the desk.

Congratulations! I'm sure you'll be a great represenative for them.

Daniel has slipped some from the start of the day but he's still in good shape. He has 73,800 chips, that's about 25,000 more than the average sack. Antonio Esfandiari is the current chip leader.

Here is how Daniel crossed the 100,000 chip mark. Daniel is having a heck of a first day.

According to Worldpokertour.com, Daniel is the chip leader with 60,000 chips. That's a good way to start the tournament.

I'm happy to hear that your mom is improving. That is excellent news. I'm hoping for her continued recovery. Keep the good news coming.

I send you and your family all of my best for a full recovery for your mother. Keep us updated. I hope to read some good news about her soon. She sounds like an amazing woman.

I send you and your family my best wishes for your mother's complete recovery. Keep us updated and I hope to read good news soon. Your mother sounds like an amazing woman. Hopefully everything turns out well.

Wow, that's a rough day. gg Daniel.

Ouch.

That might get interesting, or they might just give each other the silent treatment the entire time they're there. All I know is that there probably won't be any friendly conversaton between those two.

Daniel has Robert Mizrachi, Jon Turner and Mike Sexton at his table to start. That should be an interesting one.