First round has been played at the NBC National HU Championship and the 32 players remaining are one win away from cashing $25,000.


There are several interesting match-ups in Round 2, highlights arguably being Barry Greenstein vs Sam Farha, Phil Ivey vs Scotty Nguyen, and Phil Hellmuth vs Annette Obrestad.

Players who busted in Round 1 include Patrik Antonius, Joe Cada, Tom Dwan, Bertrand Grospellier and Mike Matusow.

Play continues at the Caesars Poker Room in Las Vegas 1pm local time Saturday (that's 2am CET). You can follow the updates on Pokernews.

Clubs

Chris Moneymaker vs Leo Wolpert
David Williams vs Erik Seidel
Erick Lindgren vs Peter Eastgate
Stephen Quinn vs Jamie Gold

 Diamonds

Barry Greenstein vs Sam Farha
Jennifer Harman vs Jerry Yang
Darvin Moon vs Annie Duke
Paul Wasicka vs Gus Hansen

 Spades

Phil Ivey vs Scotty Nguyen
Joe Hachem vs Gabe Kaplan
Jason Mercier vs Pieter de Korver
Phil Gordon vs Phil Laak

Hearts

Allen Cunningham vs Eli Elezra
Chris Ferguson vs Dennis Phillips
Doyle Brunson vs Don Cheadle
Phil Hellmuth vs Annette Obrestad

Payouts:

1. $500,000
2. $250,000
3. $125,000
4. $125,000
5. $75,000
6. $75,000
7. $75,000
8. $75,000
9. $25,000
10. $25,000
11. $25,000
12. $25,000
13. $25,000
14. $25,000
15. $25,000
16. $25,000