NBC National Heads Up Championship List of Match-Ups

[TomasJ]

The first round match-ups for the NBC National Heads Up Championship was announced today at the draw party at PURE in Las Vegas.

The field is full of awesome poker pros and that makes pretty much all the matches interesting. To get to the Sunday's final players will have to beat five opponents; the players are drawn into four brackets with one player from each bracket making it to the semi-finals.

On a different note, Doyle Brunson has decided to attend the NBC National Heads Up Championship even though he announced he was planning to withdraw. "Granted, I won’t be at my best, but I can put my game on auto-pilot and be competitive in that format. The antes and blinds have to go up very fast and that means whoever wins needs a lot of luck," Brunson stated on his blog.

This is the list of match-ups:

Club Bracket

Patrik Antonius vs Chris Moneymaker
Leo Wolpert vs Eric Baldwin
David Williams vs Joe Cada
Erik Seidel vs Huck Seed
Dan Ramirez vs Erick Lindgren
Peter Eastgate vs Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Stephen Quinn vs Ted Forrest
Dario Minieri vs Jamie Gold

Spade Bracket

Gavin Smith vs Phil Ivey
Richard Edwards vs Scotty Nguyen
Shawn Rice vs Joe Hachem
Gabe Kaplan vs Johnny Chan
Daniel Negreanu vs Jason Mercier
Pieter de Korver vs Mike Sexton
Phil Gordon vs Tom Dwan
Phil Laak vs John Juanda

Heart Bracket

Jesper Hougaard vs Allen Cunningham
Eli Elezra vs Greg Mueller
Annette Dworksi vs Chris Ferguson
Kara Scott vs Dennis Phillips
Brock Parker vs Doyle Brunson
JP Kelly vs Don Cheadle
Howard Lederer vs Phil Hellmuth
Annette Obrestad vs Orel Hershiser

Diamond Bracket

Barry Greenstein vs Vanessa Rousso
Sam Farha vs Antonio Esfandiari
Jennifer Harman vs Jennifer Tilly
Jerry Yang vs Mike Matusow
Darvin Moon vs Bill Huntress
Andy Bloch vs Annie Duke
Andrew Wilson vs Paul Wasicka
Gus Hansen vs Greg Raymer