25 Feb 10

NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Announces 6th Season Participants

The 64 participants for the National Heads-Up Poker Championship have just been announced. The event will take place between the 5th and 7th of March, and the prize pool will be $1.5 million.

NBCThe NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is set to start in less than two weeks. 57 poker pros and 7 online qualifiers will take part in this event and the list is now published on the NBC site.

Among these players, we will see the likes of Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and many more. The brackets will be decided on March 4, at the Caesars Palace Draw Party.

The prize pool structure can be found below:

NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Payout Structure
Rank Prize
1
 $500,000
2
 $250,000
3 - 4
 $125,000
5 - 8
 $75,000
9 - 16
 $25,000

Here is the full player list:

NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Player List
Patrik Antonius Sam Farha Gabe Kaplan Stephen Quinn*
Eric Baldwin Chris Ferguson John Paul Kelly Dan Ramirez*
Andy Bloch Ted Forrest Phil Laak Greg Raymer
Doyle Brunson Jamie Gold Howard Lederer Shawn Rice*
Joe Cada Phil Gordon Erick Lindgren Vanessa Rousso
Johnny Chan Barry Greenstein Mike Matusow Kara Scott
Don Cheadle Bertrand Grospellier Jason Mercier Huck Seed
Allen Cunningham Joe Hachem Dario Minieri Erik Seidel
Pieter De-Korver Gus Hansen Chris Moneymaker Mike Sexton
Annie Duke Jennifer Harman Darvin Moon Gavin Smith
Tom Dwan Phil Hellmuth Greg Mueller Jennifer Tilly
Annette Dworski* Orel Hershiser Daniel Negreanu Paul Wasicka
Peter Eastgate Jesper Hougaard Scotty Nguyen David Williams
Richard Edwards* William Huntress* Annette Obrestad Andrew Wilson*
Eli Elezra Phil Ivey Brock Parker Leo Wolpert
Antonio Esfandiari John Juanda Dennis Phillips Jerry Yang

*Online qualifier

Note: According to NBC, the player list is not yet official and therefore may undergo some changes.

About the event

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is a 64-man tournament, where players compete in a series of heads-up matches. The tournament format is single-elimination, which means that only the winning player will advance to the next stage. However, the finals are in a best-of-three format, which means that the player to get two heads-up wins is declared overall winner. For more information, please go to the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship page.