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 23rd, 2010
High Stakes Poker Season 6 - Episode 1
The most popular poker TV show is finally back with its sixth season airing on GSN. The first episode aired last night and it was full of exciting action as well as a great display of skill by all the players present.
On Sunday GSN ran a marathon of season 5 that brought so many memories to all of us as we were able to appreciate how good it was again. The sixth season promises to have a lot of fast play and interesting interactions between the players.
Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Andreas Hoivold, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, Antonio Esfandiari and Dario Mineri are all on the first table sitting left to right, respectively. Ivey and Dwan decided to bring $500,000 to the table and all the other players brought the required buy-in of $200,000. Some other faces that you should expect to see on the show are Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson, Sammy George, Daniel Negreanu, Jevgeny Timoshenko, among others.
Gabe Kaplan is back for the commentaries and he has brought Kara Scott as the new co-host for the show. The first episode is now available online and all of them will be right after the day they air on GSN.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
WPT 5 Diamond Classic
The WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic got underway with 296 players. The field of players was nowhere near the organizers’ expectations as they had prepared themselves to receive 400 players.
During Day 1 of play event organizers decided to extend the registration deadline until the end of the day and even though the field turned up to be small, it is a very tough one with only top-class players in it.
Some of the attendants are Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen, Men Nguyen, Bertrand Grospellier, Joe Hachem and Antonio Esfandiari. It was quite surprising to see Doyle Brunson come in late (almost at the end of the day) to the tournament named after him, he was seen at a cash game at the Bellagio while the tournament was already underway.
Some players were unhappy about the organization of the seats as players would get to seat next to the player who registered before them. "Wow Bellagio officially runs the worst tourney in the country now. Sign up after a guy and you get position on him at the table. Mind boggling," Daniel Negreanu complained in a Twitter update.
280 players will return for Day 2 of play.
Tags: 5 diamond world poker classic, antonio esfandiari, bellagio, bertrand grospellier, daniel negreanu, doyle brunson, joe hachem, men nguyen, scotty nguyen, world poker tour, wpt
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