37 Invites to 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship

December 28, 2007

NBC Heads Up Poker Championship NBC has sent out 17 more invites to join the 20 already invited to the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship that begins Feb 28th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

The tournament is a $20,000 buy-in invitation only event that runs a bracket style system (like NCAA basketball tournament) and will be contested over a span of three days. The overall winner will claim $500,000 and the heads up title that proves they bested one of the most difficult fields of professional poker players assembled into one tournament.

So far, first time invites are 2007 Bluff magazine’s Player of the Year, Bill Edler and Kenny Tran who had great runs at the WSOPE Event and the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. WSOP Main Event.

The 37 invitees so far are: (these players have received invites but none have yet to be confirmed)

Doyle Brunson	Shannon Elizabeth
Annie Duke	Johnny Chan
Chris Ferguson	Antonio Esfandiari
Jamie Gold	Ted Forrest
Jennifer Harman	Barry Greenstein
Howard Lederer	Phil Ivey
Jonathan Little	Erick Lindgren
Scotty Nguyen	Mike Matusow
Brian Townsend	Gavin Smith
Jerry Yang	Paul Wasicka
Chad Brown	David Benyamine
Freddy Deeb	Todd Brunson
Eli Elezra	Bill Edler
John Juanda	Clonie Gowen
Daniel Negreanu	Phil Laak
Greg Raymer	David Pham
Erik Seidel	Kenny Tran
David Williams	Vanessa Rousso
Shawn Sheikhan

There are 24 more invites that should be sent by the end of the month. The final three spots will go to players from online and Caesars Palace qualifiers.

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