On Thursday, 64 invited poker players will take part in the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. On Wednesday night, the draw party was held to determine the first-round matches. The competitors were divided into four regions, appropriately deemed Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades, and PokerNews will be providing updates from Caesars Palace throughout the day.
Please note that, on Wednesday, Daniel Negreanu opted out of playing the event, making room for the addition of David "Doc" Sands. Jennifer Harman has also pulled out of the competition, and Tom Marchese will be...
OK so Estifandari got the easiest draw ever lol and GO Joseph Cheong! Smoke Olivet Donkskey
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01-24-2013 12:48
I think Bellande has the easiest draw with the qualifier (although I'm not entirely sure what the qualifying process was), Esfandiari and Oppenheim are close seconds to that though.
01-24-2013 12:54
best match-up for the clubs is deeb vs linchenburger
best match-up for spades is phil laak vs phil ivey
best match-up for the hearts is cheong vs busquet
best match-up for the diamonds is a tie between mericer vs smith and seidel vs dwan
01-24-2013 13:26
will david williams lose his shit again this year and tear up some cards? who will blow up? will jrb break out in tears when he loses his small stack as a small favorite against a monster that has to call? really enjoy this tournament i wish we would get some david tuchmann and guests doing on some live coverage?
01-24-2013 14:28 / 01-24-2013 14:29
YAAAAAAA!!!!!! Joseph did it!!!!!! HAHA Busquet is BUSTO!!! I still have not gotten my revenge! I want it bad! At the Spring Classic at foxwoods 2011 busquet called me down with ZIP and cracked my set with runr runr donk straight. I guess Variance is catching up!
01-24-2013 21:45
best match up in the spades is blom vs matusow
best match up in the clubs is duhamal vs esfradari
best match up in the diamonds is dwan vs brunson
best match up in the hearts is smith vs hellmuth
01-25-2013 01:40
donfisher1971 wrote
YAAAAAAA!!!!!! Joseph did it!!!!!! HAHA Busquet is BUSTO!!! I still have not gotten my revenge! I want it bad! At the Spring Classic at foxwoods 2011 busquet called me down with ZIP and cracked my set with runr runr donk straight. I guess Variance is catching up!
exciting story, and nice chest hair bro.
01-25-2013 14:44 / 01-25-2013 14:45
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