Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Heads-Up
I had a fantasy about covering this year’s NBC Heads-Up Championship. If you look at my posts from 2007 through 2009, you will see a large number of posts in a very compressed period. You will also see, in my opinion, a few really excellent posts. Even though I was writing while the matches were being played – and there’s always a lot going on – some of the posts did a great job in capturing the excitement, or the feeling in the room, or some quality that makes poker and poker players special.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Annie Duke, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up
[This is my final post in the series about the 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship. NBC started broadcasting the matches two weeks ago, with an hour of coverage on April 18, following that up with two hours last Sunday, the 25th. Today and the following two Sundays (May 2, 9, and 16), you can see another two hours per week of the HUC. Broadcast coverage wraps up on NBC with three hours on Sunday, May 23. Following this post, I will write another entry helping you organize and access the posts, if you want to read them serially or in conjunction with the NBC schedule. Whether good or bad, I’d like to hear your comments about my coverage, both in general and in comparison with what you’re watching on NBC. You can post comments after the blog, or e-mail me at mrchaotic@aol.com. (I’d prefer you post your comments, but I just want to hear from you!)]
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Annie Duke, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up, I = Genius, I = Idiot, Media Life
Annie Duke vs. Erik Seidel in the final? For me, it’s a dream match-up. Erik is part of Team Full Tilt and a friend of mine, so it’s good for business that he made the championship match. Because Seidel is such a sphinx, I regard myself an expert on him even though I don’t know all that much. The important thing is everyone else knows less. There must be a way that I can turn all this knowledge into money, or at least fame.
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up, Scotty Nguyen
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up, Scotty Nguyen
At 3:49pm on Sunday March 7 the cards were in the air for the semi-finals of the 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship. Erik Seidel vs. Scotty Nguyen, Annie Duke vs. Dennis Phillips. At 3:54pm Scotty Nguyen, at the front featured table, noticed a cocktail waitress working in the adjacent poker room. He called out, “Cocktails!” Everybody on the set chuckled, except for the cocktail waitress, who had no idea what was going on, why people were laughing or what to do.
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Annie Duke, Heads-Up, Jerry Yang
The second half of the quarterfinals pitted Doyle Brunson against Dennis Phillips and Annie Duke against Jerry Yang. Doyle and Dennis were at the main TV Table, so I had a better view of Annie and Jerry. For me, therefore, the story was all about the unusual Duke-Yang pairing. Dennis Phillip’s impressive win over Doyle Brunson, from my vantage point, was like a distant radio signal that periodically cut in and interrupted the show I was watching.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Annie Duke, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up
Scotty Nguyen defeated Jason Mercier to make the semi-finals. Erik Seidel won over Peter Eastgate, and the two will play for a spot in the finals. Nobody left in the tournament has seriously contended for the Heads-Up Championship before, but for me, it all seems like déjà vu.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Heads-Up, Jason Mercier
I feel bad admitting this, but I know absolutely nothing about the hottest tournament poker player in the world. Jason Mercier has been burning down the poker circuit on both sides of the Atlantic, but I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup. As I settle in my seat to start watching the last day of the 2009 NBC Heads-Up Championship, I try to figure out why this is and, more important, WHO this Jason Mercier is.
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(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Annie Duke, Heads-Up, Joe Reitman
It’s great that NBC, starting last Sunday, is showing the Heads-Up Championship matches that I’ve been writing about since they took place. If I get a schedule together, I’ll try to give you a listing of what weeks they will be showing you the matches from what particular posts. In the meantime, let’s summarize the action because I’m near the final eight players, which is where NBC will focus a lot of its attention and coverage. The first fifteen posts concerned the Round of 64 (“Day of the Dog” I-III, “Take These Broken Wingmen and Learn to Play” I-IV) and the Round of 32 (“The Money Round” I-V).
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Barry Greenstein, Heads-Up, Sam Farha
The Round of 32 was loaded with both manufactured and real TV moments. One of the sources of drama, which requires some work to be effective for TV, is the match-ups themselves. I haven’t even mentioned the Barry Greenstein-Sam Farha match, that was just aching for more coverage.
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