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The highly anticipated 2013 NBC Heads-Up Invitational has announced those poker players participating, and these are certainly some of the biggest names in the game.
Doyle Brunson, Jonathan Duhamel, Andy Bloch, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan, Barry Greenstein, Antonio Esfandiari, Jennifer Harman and Brian Hastings just to name a few. You can’t go wrong with this crowd.
More notable perhaps is the list of champions who will not be returning. These include Chris Ferguson and Annie Duke. Ferguson was accused by US authorities of taking part in a ponzi scheme linked to Full Tilt Poker. Duke is the sister of Howard Lederer, who was also implicated in the scheme.
NBC’s Heads-Up Poker is one of the most popular poker programs. It will tape at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas on January 24th through the 26th. Players find out who their first round opponent is on January 23rd. Six weeks of programming begin in March.
The $20,000 buy-in event has been on a one-year hiatus.
Here is the full list of players:
1. Gaelle Baumann
2. Jean Robert Bellande
3. Andy Bloch
4. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom
5. Liv Boeree
6. Justin Bonomo
7. Doyle Brunson
8. Olivier Busquet
9. Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates
10. Mohsin Charania
11. Joseph Cheong
12. Shaun Deeb
13. Jonathan Duhamel
14. Tom "durrrr" Dwan
15. Eli Elezra
16. Antonio Esfandiari
17. Will Failla
18. Andy Frankenberger
19. Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond
20. Matt Glantz
21. Barry Greenstein
22. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
23. Jennifer Harman
24. Brian Hastings
25. Isaac Haxton
26. Phil Hellmuth
27. John Hennigan
28. Maria Ho
29. Phil Ivey
30. Faraz Jaka
31. Kyle Julius
32. Eugene Katchalov
33. Phil Laak
34. Ben Lamb
35. Andrew Lichtenberger
36. Matt Matros
37. Mike Matusow
38. Jason Mercier
39. Greg Merson
40. Michael Mizrachi
41. Chris Moneymaker
42. John Monnette
43. Chris Moorman
44. Carlos Mortensen
45. Daniel Negreanu
46. David Oppenheim
47. Greg Raymer
48. Vanessa Rousso
49. Rob Salaburu
50. Matt Salsberg
51. Nick Schulman
52. Huck Seed
53. Erik Seidel
54. Scott Seiver
55. Joe Serock
56. Mike Sexton
57. Sam Simon
58. Dan Smith
59. Justin Smith
60. Jason Somerville
61. Jennifer Tilly
62. Yevgeniy Timoshenko
63. David Williams
64. WSOP.com Qualifier
- Nagesh Rath, Gambling911.com
