The 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship ($20,000 buy-in -- invitation-only) begins today and runs for the next 2 days. Viktor Blom, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Dan Cates and Tom Dwan are a few of the well-known players who take part in the tournament (64 players in total). Daniel Negreanu, who decided to withdraw from the tournament yesterday, has been replaced by David "Doc" Sands. Here i[...] Read more » 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Bracket
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it would be awesome if daniel and phil ivey would come to the table and play heads up to see who is better among the two. but anyways he has some reasons why he withdrew . i wish you good luck sir and maybe see you playing on that game and take down the pros
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efandiari vs tilly....lol besides that I love the Jaka vs katchalov match up which could get followed by a macthup of the winner vs phil galfond. there are some others like dwan vs seidel blom vs lichtenberger... whats your favorite?
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finaly it is back i been wainting too long fore this, love alle the pros playing against one atnother. but estefandari and tilly will be the easyes math ever on nbc, cant waint to see him run over tilly
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i wonder why chris ferguson and howard lederer didn't enter the tourney i'm sure lots of players are dreaming about taking their scalps...and we're not talking literally here just for the public interest some porn star could've been included in the roster too- just make the tourney "boobier"
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Daniel Negreanu is a major casualty just before the begining of the event. Looks like it is made for the show to go on, the bigger battles are saved for the next level. Phil Hellmuth vs Mike Sexton seems to be one of the greatest battles from this phase. I will leave my prediction for the next round: Esfandiari vs Duhamel (“the rich” fights “the kid” Mortensen vs Cates (for Cates) Rousso vs Deeb (this girl will keep on going) Julius vs Seiver ()for seiver Lamb vs Raymer (for Lamb) Blom vs Mizrachi (Blom: “want to have some online side action while we play this?” Hermigan vs Oppenheim (for Oppenheim) Ivey vs Bonomo (for Phil) Busquet vs Bellarde (for Busquet) Galfond vs Jaka (tough… but Galfond wins) Grospellier vs Hellmuth (for Grospellier) Sommerville vs Sands (for Sommerville) Dwan vs Brunson (this will be awesome 30 minutes of TV show, and in the end Dwan wins) Hastings vs Schulman (for Hastings) Merson vs Seed (for Merson) Boeree vs Smith (the other girl keeps going) Does anyone knows if bet sites have anything about this available to apply some bucks? Can’t confirm it by now…
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several matches have already concluded. Perhaps the biggest match of the day was between Phil Ivey and Phil Laak, with Ivey ultimately advancing to the next round.
The Round 1 matches which have finished at this time are:
• Barry Greenstein defeated Ben Lamb • John Monnette defeated Greg Raymer • Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom defeated Andrew Lichtenberger • Mike Matusow defeated Michael Mizrachi • John Hennigan defeated David Williams • Sam Simon defeated David Oppenheim • Phil Ivey defeated Phil Laak • Justin Bonomo defeated Isaac Haxton • Joseph Cheong defeated Olivier Busquet • Eugene Katchalov defeated Faraz Jaka • Justin Smith defeated Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier
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Posted by Fakiry: Daniel Negreanu is a major casualty just before the begining of the event. Looks like it is made for the show to go on, the bigger battles are saved for the next level. Phil Hellmuth vs Mike Sexton seems to be one of the greatest battles from this phase. I will leave my prediction for the next round: Esfandiari vs Duhamel (�the rich� fights �the kid� Mortensen vs Cates (for Cates) Rousso vs Deeb (this girl will keep on going) Julius vs Seiver ()for seiver Lamb vs Raymer (for Lamb) Blom vs Mizrachi (Blom: �want to have some online side action while we play this?� Hermigan vs Oppenheim (for Oppenheim) Ivey vs Bonomo (for Phil) Busquet vs Bellarde (for Busquet) Galfond vs Jaka (tough� but Galfond wins) Grospellier vs Hellmuth (for Grospellier) Sommerville vs Sands (for Sommerville) Dwan vs Brunson (this will be awesome 30 minutes of TV show, and in the end Dwan wins) Hastings vs Schulman (for Hastings) Merson vs Seed (for Merson) Boeree vs Smith (the other girl keeps going) Does anyone knows if bet sites have anything about this available to apply some bucks? Can�t confirm it by now�
pretty impressiv 19 out of 32 right lets see what the next round brings gonna make some predictions too:
ESFANDIARI vs duhamel moorman vs CATES ROUSSO vs deeb julius vs SEIVER GREENSTEIN vs monette BLOM vs matusow HENNINGAN vs simon IVEY vs bonomo CHEONG vs miller GALFOND vs katcahlov smith vs HELLMUTH moneymaker vs SANDS DWAN vs brunson hastings vs ELEZRA serock vs SEED baumann vs SMITH
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Posted by SirPoncho:
Posted by Fakiry: Daniel Negreanu is a major casualty just before the begining of the event. Looks like it is made for the show to go on, the bigger battles are saved for the next level. Phil Hellmuth vs Mike Sexton seems to be one of the greatest battles from this phase. I will leave my prediction for the next round: Esfandiari vs Duhamel (�the rich� fights �the kid� Mortensen vs Cates (for Cates) Rousso vs Deeb (this girl will keep on going) Julius vs Seiver ()for seiver Lamb vs Raymer (for Lamb) Blom vs Mizrachi (Blom: �want to have some online side action while we play this?� Hermigan vs Oppenheim (for Oppenheim) Ivey vs Bonomo (for Phil) Busquet vs Bellarde (for Busquet) Galfond vs Jaka (tough� but Galfond wins) Grospellier vs Hellmuth (for Grospellier) Sommerville vs Sands (for Sommerville) Dwan vs Brunson (this will be awesome 30 minutes of TV show, and in the end Dwan wins) Hastings vs Schulman (for Hastings) Merson vs Seed (for Merson) Boeree vs Smith (the other girl keeps going) Does anyone knows if bet sites have anything about this available to apply some bucks? Can�t confirm it by now�
pretty impressiv 19 out of 32 right lets see what the next round brings gonna make some predictions too:
ESFANDIARI vs duhamel moorman vs CATES ROUSSO vs deeb julius vs SEIVER GREENSTEIN vs monette BLOM vs matusow HENNINGAN vs simon IVEY vs bonomo CHEONG vs miller GALFOND vs katcahlov smith vs HELLMUTH moneymaker vs SANDS DWAN vs brunson hastings vs ELEZRA serock vs SEED baumann vs SMITH
Yes, 19 right out of 32 was an excellent result, that means 61.3% of correct predictions!!! I’m just sad for haven’t made any bet about it, but at least I can keep the comfort of having a lot of guessing skills. I just cleaned my predictions from the first level so one could better compare our two predictions (and to see how many will I get right from the beginning), and I realized there’s only one difference on our hunches (besides those I got wrong), which is the victory of HASTINGS (hastings vs elezra) on this round. Let’s see who gets it right!
i'm sure lots of players are dreaming about taking their scalps...and we're not talking literally here 
