Lots of poker happening this week!!
The National Heads Up Poker Championship hosted by NBC announced it's list of players for this year after their hiatus last year. Here's the list:
Gaelle Baumann, Jean-Robert Bellande, Andy Bloch, Viktor Blom, Liv Boeree, Justin Bonomo, Doyle Brunson, Olivier Busquet, Daniel Cates, Mohsin Charania, Joseph Cheong, Shaun Deeb, Jonathan Duhamel, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Will Failla, Andy Frankenberger, Phil Galfond, Matt Glantz, Barry Greenstein, Bertrand Grospellier, Jennifer Harman, Brian Hastings, Isaac Haxton, Phil Hellmuth, John Hennigan, Maria Ho, Phil Ivey, Faraz Jaka, Kyle Julius, Eugene Katchalov, Phil Laak, Ben Lamb, Andrew Lichtenberger, Matt Matros, Mike Matusow, Jason Mercier, Greg Merson, Michael Mizrachi, Chris Moneymaker, John Monnette, Chris Moorman, Carlos Mortensen, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Vanessa Rousso, Rob Salaburu, Matt Salsberg, Nick Schulman, Huck Seed, Erik Seidel, Scott Seiver, Joe Serock, Mike Sexton, Sam Simon, Dan Smith, Justin Smith, Jason Somerville, Jennifer Tilly, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, David Williams
Notables missing: Annie Duke (for obvious reasons: Epic Poker League...) Vanessa Selbst tweeted that she's playing in the Aussie Millions instead(unless she makes the final table, bummer) I think Pius Heinz should've been invited since he was the WSOP champ for 2011. And I have no problem with Gaelle Baumann, but we should also have Elizabeth Hille, too...
Questionable entries, at least to me: John Hennigan: he's solid, but more of a blast from the past...right? Has he done something recently I'm forgetting??
Jennifer Tilly - She's the only "celebrity" still invited, unless I missed someone else...she has a bracelet, though...so there's that...I'd rather see Hille, though...maybe Tilly's playing better these days...?
The tournament will run the 24th-26th and I'm guessing they'll announce the brackets tomorrow sometime.
Poker League Season 9 Week 4 will play out on Saturday night so that should be fun and Sunday, hopefully I won't be too hung over to play in the 2pm River's Sunday $40 "Cheap Bastard" tournament.
Wish me luck!
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