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National Heads-Up Poker Championship Season 3 at Caesar's Palace in MarchSat, Feb 3rd, 2007 @ 12:00am A veritable who's who in the poker world will be attending the third season of the popular National Heads-Up Poker Championship, March 1 to 4, 2007 in Las Vegas. The tourney pits 64 top players competing in a series of heads-up games (one-on-one games of Texas Hold'em). The tournament has a unique, single-elimination, bracket-style format modeled after college basketball tournaments. The first round is seeded randomly during a live Pairings Party held the night before the tournament begins. Players are divided into four brackets: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades. They advance by winning a heads-up match against their randomly drawn opponent. The structure of the brackets then determines every match thereafter.
The semifinals are comprised of one player from each bracket, with the winner of the Spades bracket playing the winner of the Clubs bracket, and the winner of the Hearts bracket matched up against the winner of the Diamonds bracket. Then on March 4, a best-of-three-hands final match then determines which of the two finalists is crowned champion. The event will be filmed for television in the tournament room at Caesar's Palace between March 1st and March 4th, with the highlights to be aired on NBC and CNBC over seven consecutive Sundays in April and May.
NBC's earlier press release (click here to see prior PokerPages article) confirmed 16 of the biggest names in poker have already accepted invitations to participate. These include: 2006 champion Ted Forrest, 2005 winner Phil Hellmuth, 2005 and 2006 runner-up Chris Ferguson, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Farha, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, and the recent WSOP-champ quartet of Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem and Jamie Gold. (Click on any link above to see player profiles). Although invitations have been issued for 62 of the 64 seats and 16 players confirmed, the remaining players have yet to be officially announced. As in the past, today's top poker players from around the world are likely to attend.
Caesar's Palace is holding a satellite for seat 63 February 10 at 3 p.m. Buyin costs $230 and it has $200 rebuys and a $200 add-on. Seat 64 will be awarded to the winner of freeplay event hosted by NBC on their website, where you can qualify until February 10. Click here for more details. Buy-ins to seats at the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship are not exactly cheap at US$20,000 (15,360 Euros or 10,160 pounds) per seat. But with substantial prestige and a check for half a million dollars or more to the winner, it is an event that repeatedly draws the best players. Read Related Article:
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