2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship – Invitations Set
The 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship is ready to be played next weekend (March 6 – 8) at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas. The names of the 64 invitees have been released. On the list are former NBC Heads-Up champions, World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champions and some online qualifiers, a few of whom are yet to be named.
Here is an alphabetical listing of the invited players:
David Benyamine Andy Bloch Chad Brown Doyle Brunson Johnny Chan Don Cheadle Glen Chorny Allen Cunningham Ivan Demidov Annie Duke Tom Dwan Peter Eastgate Eli Elezra Antonio Esfandiari Sam Farha Chris Ferguson Scott Fischman Layne Flack Ted Forrest Brad Garrett Jamie Gold Clonie Gowen Barry Greenstein Gavin Griffin Bertrand Grospellier Joe Hachem Gus Hansen Jennifer Harman Phil Hellmuth Orel Hershiser Jeffrey Ishbia (Caesars qualifier) Phil Ivey John Juanda Gabe Kaplan Phil Laak Howard Lederer Erick Lindgren Jonathan Little Mike Matusow Dario Minieri Chris Moneymaker Daniel Negreanu Scotty Nguyen David Pham John Phan Greg Raymer Vanessa Rousso Ilari Sahamies Huck Seed Vanessa Selbst Erik Seidel Mike Sexton Gavin Smith Jennifer Tilly J.C. Tran Kenny Tran Paul Wasicka David Williams Jerry Yang Leon Yanovski (online qualifier) TBD (Caesars qualifier) TBD (online qualifier) TBD (online qualifier) TBD (online qualifier)
Poker Stars and Full Tilt held qualifiers to these events. Visit both sites now for more information!