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Breaking Down the NBC National Heads-Up Selection Process
It is hard to imagine that the NBC National Heads-Up Championship, which began as replacement programming for the National Hockey League lockout of 2005, has evolved into one of the most anticipated events of the year. With the draw party for this year’s event set to take place on Thursday at PURE Nightclub in Las Vegas, we thought it’d be worthwhile to take a look at the event’s selection process as well as some of the more questionable invitees.
The Chosen Few: Back in 2008, NBC released a statement explaining “the selection committee involved with determining which players are invited has...
KefferI have always been a big fan of the Devilfish and cannot believe he has never played this event. Sure, his results aren't anything special in the last few years, but entertainment-wise they don't get much better.
03-02-2011 16:28
Chad_Holloway
JBM2005What about the new kid on the block - Viktor Blom - Isildur1? Hey, what about expanding to 128 players, most of the 10K entry tournaments have way more than 128 to start with?
03-03-2011 00:50
Phil Gordon,Phil Laak,Ted Forrest in The Heads Up Tournament to the exclusion of Great young players.Who is involved in making the selection?They must be doing drugs with Charlie Sheen.
03-03-2011 13:04
Tony G may have a big ego, but he's absolutely right. He's got top entertainment value in poker, and he rightfully deserves to be there ahead of a few others. I mean, c'mon, ...who wouldn't want to see Tony G and Phil Hellmuth play for the title? I thought so.
03-04-2011 02:14
Percival
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