Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
NBC National Heads Up Championship
The NBC National Heads Up Championship is an annual event that features most of the top poker players in the industry. Some celebrities are also invited to take part of the game and the organizers have released the list of guests for this year.
This year we will be seeing a lot of familiar faces but also some celebrities and two first-timers; Kara Scott and Annette Obrestad. The NBC Heads Up Championship will take place at Caesars Palace from March 4th to 7th and it will then be televised.
The top names of poker have commented that this event is not highly regarded by them because the fast structure can make it feel like a crapshoot, however, it is extremely entertaining to watch on TV. This time we will have 57 guests and 7 online qualifiers.
This is the full list of guests for the 2010 NBC Heads Up Championship:
- Patrik Antonius
- Eric Baldwin
- Andy Bloch
- Doyle Brunson
- Joe Cada
- Johnny Chan
- Don Cheadle
- Allen Cunningham
- Pieter de Korver
- Annie Duke
- Tom Dwan
- Peter Eastgate
- Eli Elezra
- Antonio Esfandiari
- Sam Farha
- Chris Ferguson
- Ted Forrest
- Jamie Gold
- Phil Gordon
- Barry Greenstein
- Bertrand Grospellier
- Joe Hachem
- Gus Hansen
- Jennifer Harman
- Phil Hellmuth
- Orel Hershiser
- Jesper Hougaard
- Phil Ivey
- John Juanda
- Gabe Kaplan
- John Paul Kelly
- Phil Laak
- Howard Lederer
- Erick Lindgren
- Mike Matusow
- Jason Mercier
- Dario Minieri
- Chris Moneymaker
- Darvin Moon
- Greg Mueller
- Daniel Negreanu
- Scotty Nguyen
- Annette Obrestad
- Brock Parker
- Dennis Phillips
- Greg Raymer
- Vanessa Rousso
- Kara Scott
- Huck Seed
- Erik Seidel
- Mike Sexton
- Gavin Smith
- Jennifer Tilly
- Paul Wasicka
- David Williams
- Leo Wolpert
- Jerry Yang
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Tyron Krost Winner of Aussie Millions Main Event 2010
If you have been following the Aussie Millions news, you probably know that professional poker player Sorel Mizzi had a massive chip lead and was a favorite to win. Well, if you missed the final table you may not know that things did not work out too well for him.
The Aussie Millions Main Event came to an end last week and it was 23-year old poker player from Sydney, Australia, Tyron Krost, who took it down. Sorel Mizzi was holding 6,033,000 chips when the final table began, his closest competitor was Krost with only 1,869,000 and the remaining 6 players were somewhere between 635,000 and 1,754,000.
By the time only four players remained Tyron Krost managed to take the chip lead and not let go of it until the event was over. Sorel Mizzi finished in 3rd place and heads-up play was between Krost and Frederik Jensen.
Tyron Krost played elegantly and took the title. He qualified for the tournament online at Party Poker and he has cashed twice in the WSOP before.
These were the final table results:
- Tyron Krost $2,000,000
- Frederik Jensen $1,100,000
- Sorel Mizzi $715,000
- Kosta Varoxis $450,000
- Peter Jetten $350,000
- Steve Friedlander $250,000
- Annette Obrestad $175,000
- Stephen Shelly $125,000
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