Thursday, March 03, 2011

NBC Heads Up

The player lists are up for the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The tournament features a $25,000 buy in up $5k from last year. The tournament will be broadcast on NBC in April and May in six episodes.

It looks like Tony G and Sammy Farha are notable absences this year, although I understand Sammy plays mainly PLO cash and there are probably some more deserving players, but you can't argue with the entertainment value of Tony G. I'd also like to see a Luke Schwartz or someone like that too.

I'm not sure what Layne Flack does to get invited, but surely they could find some better options? I'm not really sure what he adds. There are plenty of great/entertaining players who would be much better to watch.

As always there is some potentially interesting matches, like Mizzi v Racener due to the 'bottom dealing' Chinese Poker saga that's ongoing at the moment or Negranu v Duke for the various spats they have had over the years.

As always there are a few celebrities in the field such as Emmitt Smith, Don Cheadle and Jason Alexander. I guess we can include Kara in that category but quite frankly, who cares how she gets in.

Looks like we're in for an interesting tournament. Looking forward to watching.

Full list available here:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110223005594/en/Emmitt-Smith-Don-Cheadle-Jason-Alexander-Join