2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
54
Prize
$750,000
Event Info
Entries
64

Clubs - The Party Bracket

The clubs bracket certainly lives up to its name, providing what we expect to be the most lively matches of the day. The feature table has a huge chunk of air time locked up with the lovely Liv Boeree facing off against George Costanza himself, Jason Alexander. He tweeted this morning that he'd "Been thinking how 2 defeat Liv Boeree in poker today. Gonna try not finding her attractive. That'll freak her out. Unless she calls my bluff."

Dwyte Pilgrim, known for some of the most jaw-droppingly irreverent commentary ever uttered at a tv table, is going up against Olivier "LivB" Busquet, a last minute addition to the line up. We can't help but notice that if he wins his match and Liv wins hers, the next round will be LivB v. Liv Boeree.

Ayaz Mahmood, the reigning World Series of Poker Heads-Up Champion, is seated opposite everyone's favorite baby-faced online phenom, Annette Obrestad. Andy Bloch is rocking his usual cowboy hat to face John Juanda. Jason Mercier will attempt to eat Ted Forrest at his own game. Oops, we mean beat. Barry Greenstein will sit silently, half asleep, at one end of the table while Scotty Nguyen shticks it up on the other. The current champion of the world, Jonathan Duhamel, takes on a man of the people, qualifier Melburn Whitmire. And Nicholas Chouity, winner of the European Poker Tour's 2010 Grand Final in Monte Carlo, is staring down the magician himself, Antonio Esfandiari, in front of a rail full of Esfandiari's family.