The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship announced the brackets at the draw party Thursday night. The 64 players are now added to the brackets so have a look and see who's playing who.
The draw took place at the Caesars Palace on Thursday night, where the 64 participants were split into four groups of 16: Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs.
The brackets are below:
| 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 |
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| Diamonds |
| Bertrand 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 |
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| Hearts |
| Kara Scott vs. David 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 |
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| 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 |
| Jonathan Duhamel vs. Melburn Whitmire |
| Annette Obrestad vs. Ayaz Mahmood |
| Nicolas Chouity vs. Antonio Esfandiari |
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The schedule is as follows:
- Friday, March 4th: Round of 64
- Saturday, March 5th: Round of 32 and Round of 16
- Sunday, March 6th: Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals
What's your favourite match-up?
That's a hard question, but if we had to pick one from each group, we would go for the ones below. Tell us what match-up you're looking for in the comments.
Daniel Cates |
vs.
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Phil Ivey |
Daniel Negreanu |
vs.
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Phil Laak |
Jason Alexander |
vs.
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Liv Boeree |
Joe Hachem |
vs.
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Phil Galfond |
