2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship Roster

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

The field has been set for the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace and it is stocked full of your favorite poker players. The 6th running of this incredibly popular event will feature a 64 player bracket which will include online qualifiers from Full Tilt Poker. All former winners of the event are set to compete including Chris Ferguson and defending champion Huck Seed.

The rest of the field includes many other members of Team Full Tilt including Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, John Juanda, Erick Lindgren, Andy Bloch, Allen Cunningham, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrick Antonius and Gavin Smith. The prizepool will be $1,500,000 with the winner taking home $500,000. Even though the field is set the players will not know their opponent until the bracket assignments are drawn on March 4th. The tournament will start on March 5th and finishing up on March 7th with a winner.

Former champions:

2005 – Phil Hellmuth
2006 – Ted Forrest
2007 – Paul Wasicka
2008 – Chris Ferguson
2009 – Huck Seed

NBC Broadcast schedule:

April 18 – Noon – 1PM ET/9:00-10:00 AM PT
April 25 – Noon – 2PM ET/9:00-11:00AM PT
May 2 – Noon – 2PM ET/9:00-11:00 AM PT
May 9 – Noon – 2PM ET/9:00-11:00 AM PT
May 16 – Noon – 2PM ET/9:00-11:00 AM PT
May 23 – Noon – 3PM ET/9:00-Noon AM PT

Patrick Antonius
Eric Baldwin
Andy Bloch
Doyle Brunson
Joe Cada
Johnny Chan
Don Cheadle
Allen Cunningham
Pieter De-Korver
Annie Duke
Tom Dwan
Peter Eastgate
Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Sam Farha
Chris Ferguson
Ted Forrest
Jamie Gold
Phil Gordon
Barry Greenstein
Bertrand Grospellier
Joe Hachem
Gus Hansen
Jennifer Harman
Phil Hellmuth
Orel Hershiser
Jesper Hougaard
Phil Ivey
John Juanda
Gabe Kaplan
John Paul Kelly
Phil Laak
Howard Lederer
Erick Lindgren
Mike Matusow
Jason Mercier
Dario Minieri
Chris Moneymaker
Darvin Moon
Greg Mueller
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
Annette Obrestad
Brock Parker
Dennis Phillips
Greg Raymer
Vanessa Rousso
Kara Scott
Huck Seed
Erik Seidel
Mike Sexton
Gavin Smith
Jennifer Tilly
Paul Wasicka
David Williams
Leo Wolpert
Jerry Yang
Online Qualifiers (7)