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, January 26th, 2010
amFAR Charity Poker Tournament a Success
This past Friday we saw A-list celebrities, poker, and sports stars arrive for the 2010
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and they were all ready to take part of the charity poker tournament benefiting amfAR. amfAR is a non-profit organization dedicated to AIDS research.
Some of the attendees include professional poker players Joe Cada, Humberto Brenes, former professional tennis player Boris Becker, former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland, model Joana Krupa and former professional hockey star Mats Sundin.
The event had a $5,250 buy-in and it was filmed for television and beamed across cyberspace through EPTlive. The tournament’s format was a shootout and had 39 players sitting on four tables; they all had initial stacks of 50,000 chips. The last two standing from each table would then go the final table in which players would receive 50,000 chips each again to start final table play.
amfAR has been dedicated to AIDS research since 1985 and they have invested almost $290 million and has awarded grants to nearly 2,000 research teams around the world. The tournament contributed to a very noble cause, with fifty percent of the prize pool going to amfAR, and players were encouraged to donate 1% of their winnings as well.
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
William Reynolds Takes Down PCA High Rollers
From Sioux City, Iowa, William Reynolds came to the Bahamas to take part of the
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. He is now walking away with the High Rollers event title and a prize of $500,000.
Despite being at the edge of elimination twice during the tournament, Reynolds managed to outplay the whole field of players and emerge victorious.
“I feel great,” Reynolds said, "I can’t count the amount of times I was all in. I was ready to be on the beach and up in my hotel room."
Congratulations to the new champion; here are the final results of the event:
- William Reynolds (USA) - $576,240
- Will Molson (Canada) - $322,075
- Adolfo Vaeza (Uruguay) - $218,150
- Michiel Brummelhuis (Netherlands) - $154,350
- Lisa Hamilton (USA) - $133,770
- Tobias Reinkemeier (Germany) - $108,045
- Matt Marafioti (Canada) - $87,465
- Dmitry Stelmak (Russia) - $66,885
- Sandra Naujoks (Germany) - $56,995
- Alex Brenes (Costa Rica) - $56,995
- Joe Cada (USA) - $51,540
- Carter Phillips (USA) - $51,540
- Greg Raymer (USA) - $46,305
- Isaac Baron (USA) - $46,305
- Shawn Buchanan (USA) - $41,160
- James Calderaro (USA) - $41,160
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