Xuan Liu battled hard in Montreal's two 6-Max matches last week but was only able to collect 2 of 14 points. The National just defeated LA Sunset Olivier Busquet heads-up to win her first match this week, and pickup 7 valuable points

The Top 2 teams in the Global Poker League are heads-up in the first of two Americas Conference Six-Max matches today as Montreal's Xuan Liu is battling LA Sunset star Olivier Busquet - let's go!

GPL Top Scorer Olivier Busquet will play the first Americas Conference match for the LA Sunset - Chance Kornuth will replace him for the second. Jonathan Duhamel (LV), Thiago Nishijima (SAO), Xuan Liu (MTL), Kevin MacPhee (NY) and Anton Wigg (SF) are all in action as well

Brian Rast becomes the very first player to win back-to-back 6-Max matches in one night. The 14-point bonanza sees his Bears climb out of the GPL basement, moving past the Rome Emperors

Time for Moscow Wolverine Sergey Lebedev to get one over Fabrice Soulier - a nicely timed bluffed sees the Aviators' Team Manager fold the best hand, again! FabSoul will certainly seek revenge!

Walter Treccarichi has been subbed in for this second Eurasian Conference match for the Rome Emperors. Treccarichi, a two-time winner on tour this season, will hope to do better than Team Manager Max Pescatori did earlier today

The Berlin Bears certainly needed the full 7-points in this match - big win for Brian Rast, as the team gains 4 points on Hong Kong, but they still sit 9 out of the playoffs

Tough break for Aviators' Fabrice Soulier, folding pocket queens on the river as Brian Rast's all-in bluff forced his hand. Rast's move proves that aggression does indeed pay off!

It's Berlin's Brian Rast and Paris' Fabrice Soulier heads-up in our first match of the day ... they have combined for 27 years of experience on the live tournament circuit!

Rome Emperors Team Manager Max Pescatori is the first player to bust in today's Eurasia 6-max match. His JJ was up against the pocket rockets Berlin Bears' Brian Rast