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The NHUPC will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from March 6th to 8th. A total of 64 players are going to participate this year; 12 former World Series of Poker main-event champs, two Academy Award-nominated actors: Don Cheadle and Jennifer Tilly, one former baseballer: Orel Hershiser, and 49 others are slated to play.

The winner will pick up the total sum of HALF MILLION DOLLARS, and the runner-up will take $250,000.

The sponsor of the event, GoDaddy.com will have its CEO and founder Bob Parson on hand to draw the names; Go Daddy Girl Candice Michelle is going to award the big check and the trophy to the winner of the final play on March 8th.

This is the list of the invited players:

David Benyamine
Andy Bloch
Chad Brown
Doyle Brunson
Johnny Chan
Don Cheadle
Glen Chorny
Allen Cunningham
Ivan Demidov
Annie Duke
Tom Dwan
Peter Eastgate
Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Sam Farha
Chris Ferguson
Scott Fischman
Layne Flack
Ted Forrest
Brad Garrett
Jamie Gold
Clonie Gowen
Barry Greenstein
Gavin Griffin
Bertrand Grospellier
Joe Hachem
Gus Hansen
Jennifer Harman
Phil Hellmuth
Orel Hershiser
Jeffrey Ishbia (Caesars qualifier)
Phil Ivey
John Juanda
Gabe Kaplan
Phil Laak
Howard Lederer
Erick Lindgren
Jonathan Little
Mike Matusow
Dario Minieri
Chris Moneymaker
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
David Pham
John Phan
Greg Raymer
Vanessa Rousso
Ilari Sahamies
Huck Seed
Vanessa Selbst
Erik Seidel
Mike Sexton
Gavin Smith
Jennifer Tilly
J.C. Tran
Kenny Tran
Paul Wasicka
David Williams
Jerry Yang
Leon Yanovski (online qualifier)
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