NBC's annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship is underway at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas! 
The 64 players that were invited to the event will initially play in one of four brackets, which were drawn last night.

Here is the bracket line-up:

Diamonds
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier vs. Justin Young
Joe Hachem vs. Phil Galfond
Vanessa Selbst vs. Eli Elezra
Peter Eastgte vs.Chris Ferguson
Huck Seed vs. Jennifer Harman
Erik Seidel vs. Allen Cunningham
Mike Matusow vs. Greg Raymer
Thomas Marchese vs. Phil Gordon

Clubs
Dwyte Pilgrim vs. Olivier Busquet
Liv Boeree vs. Jason Alexander
Jason Mercier vs. Ted Forrest
Andy Bloch vs. John Juanda
Barry Greenstein vs. Scotty Nguyen
Annette Obrestad vs. Ayaz Mahmood
Jonathan Duhamel vs. Melburn Whitmire
Nicolas Chouity vs. Antonio Esfandiari

Hearts
Kara Scott vs. David "Viffer" Peat
David Williams vs. Emmitt Smith
Gavin Smith vs. Gus Hansen
James Bord vs. Frank Kassela
Phil Laak vs. Daniel Negreanu
Michael Mizrachi vs. Vanessa Rousso
Don Cheadle vs. Tom Dwan
Phil Hellmuth vs. David Benyamine

Spades
Doyle Brunson vs. Jennifer Tilly
Erick Lindgren vs. Dennis Phillips
Daniel Cates vs. Phil Ivey
John Racener vs. Chris Moneymaker
Carlos Mortensen vs. Sam Trickett
Eric Baldwin vs. David Oppenheim
Patrik Antonius vs. Sorel Mizzi
Eugene Katchalov vs. Faraz Jaka

The Diamond Bracket players were first up.

Allen Cunningham was the first player to be eliminated when his straight and flush draws against Eric Seidel's top two pair failed to improve.

Peter Eastgate, back from retirement, knocked out the second player in the match, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson when Ferguson's flopped open ended straight failed to improve against Eastgate's pocket queens.  Chris was the second person to be eliminated from the Diamond Bracket.

The third player to be eliminated, also from the Diamond Bracket was Huck Seed.  Jen Harman's top pair bested Huck's ten high.

Next to be eliminated from the Diamond Bracket was Joe Hachem, followed by Eli Elezra.

Greg Raymer took it down against Mike Matusow, when Raymer, with K9 called the short stacked Matusow's Q8 pre-flop shove.  Each player flopped a pair, with Raymer's pair of 9s leading Matusow's pair of 8s.
Matusow did not improve and was out of the tournament.

Phil Gorden knocked out Tom Marchese.  Phil flopped two pair to Marchese's flush draw.  Marchese did not improved and he was out.

Last to go out in the Diamond Bracket was Justin Young, when his A4 failed to improve against Elky's pocket kings.

Here is the Diamond Bracket line-up for tomorrow's round of 32:

Bertrand Grospellier v. Phil Galfond
Vanessa Selbst v. Peter Eastgate
Jennifer Harman v. Erik Seidel
Greg Raymer v. Phil Gordon