NBC Heads-Up Championship Draws

JohnBoyWWFC · Mar 4, 2011

The draw for this year's NBC Heads-Up Championship has taken place. Some great looking match up's.

Phil Ivey v Dan Cates stands out. Also, Sam Trickett v Carlos Mortenson. Trickett is on fire this year and is playing some incredible poker, one of the best players int he world right now. Brunson v Tilly, Racener v Moneymaker, David Peat should own Kara Scott- no offence to her, Peter Eastgate's return to poker v Chris Ferguson plus Seidel v Cunningham and Matusow v Raymer. Some awesome matches. Also worth noting that if Dwan and Hellmuth win their matches (Hellmuth faces Benyamine, so a tough draw) they'll face each other in a look back to their duel last time where Dwan sucked out on Hellmuth was TT v AA.

Excited!

Dreams of Tragedy · Mar 4, 2011

i wish i could play in something like this knowing that my specialty is heads up...

mrmonkey · Mar 4, 2011

Great matchups in there, should be an exciting event to watch. I find it interesting that there are celebs in there like Jason Alexander, Don Cheadle, and Emmit Smith against all these seasoned pros.

I wonder if Cheadle can keep his first-round magic up and knock out Dwan in the first round? He beat Phil Ivey in '07 and David Pham in '09.

Is Viktor Blom still not old enough to play in this yet?

NFLD_REBEL · Mar 4, 2011

I'm looking forward to watching this, should be really interesting to see how Cates does.

Mortis · Mar 4, 2011

Anyone wanna fill out who they think they would win for fun and points? No prizes.. just for the hell of it?

Oh wow.. Barry Greenstein vs. Scotty Nguyen - Peter Eastgate vs. Jesus - Huck Seed vs. Jennifer Harman all in the 1st round.

I'm beginning to think that some of these aren't "random" lol.. they are setting up for a very possible Tom Dwan vs. Phil Hellmuth 2nd round match.

EDIT:

Nevermind.. looking up some info on it.. I see they have already started taping and some matches have already concluded.

Jillychemung · Mar 4, 2011

If you don't want to know who wins in each round then stay away from http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/41891734/ns/sports-poker_on_nbc/

smd173 · Mar 4, 2011

mrmonkey said:
Is Viktor Blom still not old enough to play in this yet?

Correct. He's not yet 21, and the NHUPC is played in Vegas.

Zdydy · Mar 4, 2011

Phil Ivey and Dan Cates will sure be a pretty good match up. Also i hope Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth advance to the second round for a rematch

OzExorcist · Mar 5, 2011

Since this is a poker tournament being held in 2011 with a small field Erik Seidel will win it. Obv.

RamdeeBen · Mar 5, 2011

All the first round matches are done with now, some interesting results.

Extreme Fishing · Mar 5, 2011

Is there any footage yet?

LarkMarlow · Mar 5, 2011

The matches will begin airing on NBC April 17 at noon ET.

gnk2727 · Mar 5, 2011

Zdydy said:
Phil Ivey and Dan Cates will sure be a pretty good match up. Also i hope Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth advance to the second round for a rematch

The pure entertainment value of this alone is priceless!

Mortis · Mar 5, 2011

Jillychemung said:
If you don't want to know who wins in each round then stay away from http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/41891734/ns/sports-poker_on_nbc/

And don't follow FullTiltPoker on twitter either.... they are announcing the winner of each round.. urgh. Guess there is just no avoiding that kind of stuff. I tried to avoid hearing who the winner of the wsop 2010 was before it aired, but to no avail. I never even watched the final table of the WSOP 2010 Main Event.

JohnBoyWWFC · Mar 5, 2011

Lol I was the same Mortis, avoided all the threads on here spoiling it, loaded up PokerStars and BAM JONATHAN DUHAMEL NEW WORLD CHAMPION!

Dammit.

TheDevilsLuck · Mar 6, 2011

Is it bad that the only hope I have is for Moneymaker not to win?

Jeight · Mar 6, 2011

TheDevilsLuck said:
Is it bad that the only hope I have is for Moneymaker not to win?

yes it will make you touch yourself at night

Mortis · Mar 6, 2011

Jeight said:
yes it will make you touch yourself at night

No.. that's the porn.

nc_royals · Mar 6, 2011

This is why the November 9 is such a good idea. No way I can avoid visiting forums and poker websites and not accidently see some results from this tournament. Not to mention if I do avoid seeing it on the computer. My subscription to bluff and Cardplayers will show up in the mail and then.... Damn

norriscjn · Mar 6, 2011

will look forward to this. Thanks for the "heads up"

LLCoolSway · Mar 6, 2011

Yeah I follow a few of these guys on twitter and seen a few outcomes already. I suppose that is what they use the twitter for.

OzExorcist · Mar 7, 2011

Will be interesting to come back to this thread after it airs and see who picked what right

NBC Heads-Up Championship Draws

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