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National Heads-Up Poker Championship players announced
The 64 players in NBC’s fourth National Heads-Up Poker Championship have been confirmed for the event, according to pokerpages.com. The event begins Feb. 29 at Caesars Palace in Lax Vegas and features a first prize of half a million dollars. The single-elimination tournament starts with 64 ��...full article

The 64 players in NBC’s fourth National Heads-Up Poker Championship have been confirmed for the event, according to pokerpages.com. The event begins Feb. 29 at Caesars Palace in Lax Vegas and features a first prize of half a million dollars.
The single-elimination tournament starts with 64 players who advance via single elimination matches to the best-0f-three final on March 2.

All three former champions will be in the field, according to the Web site:

All three former NHPC winners will participate in this year’s event. Paul Wasicka was crowned champion of the 2007 NHPC, outlasting Chad Brown. Ted Forrest was the trophy winner in 2006, and Phil Hellmuth won the inaugural NHUPC in 2005. Both Hellmuth and Forrest captured their titles after outlasting 2000 WSOP Main Event Champion Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson.

2003 WSOP champion Chris Moneymaker has also confirmed that he will participate.

Players will also include the three 2007 Players of the Year as awarded by major poker publications. They are J.C. Tran (ALL IN), Bill Edler (Bluff) and David “The Dragon” Pham (Card Player).

Celebrities like Jason Alexander and Don Cheadle will also play in the field. Here are all the players:

1. Alexander, Jason
2. Antonius, Patrik
3. Bellande, Jean-Robert
4. Benyamine, David
5. Bloch, Andy
6. Brown, Chad
7. Brunson, Doyle
8. Brunson, Todd
9. Chan, Johnny
10. Cheadle, Don
11. Clements, Scott
12. Cloutier, T.J.
13. Cunningham, Allen
14. Deeb, Freddy
15. Duke, Annie
16. Dwan, Tom
17. Edler, Bill
18. Elezra, Eli
19. Elizabeth, Shannon
20. Esfandiari, Antonio
21. Farha, Sam
22. Ferguson, Chris
23. Fischman, Scott
24. Forrest, Ted
25. Gold, Jamie
26. Gowen, Clonie
27. Greenstein, Barry
28. Grizzle, Sam
29. Hachem, Joe
30. Hansen, Gus
31. Harman, Jennifer
32. Hellmuth, Phil
33. Hershiser, Orel
34. Ivey, Phil
35. Juanda, John
36. Kaplan, Gabe
37. Kelly, Tom(Caesars Palace qualifier)
38. Laak, Phil
39. Lederer, Howard
40. Lindgren, Erick
41. Little, Jonathan
42. Matusow, Mike
43. Moneymaker, Chris
44. Mizrachi, Michael
45. Negreanu, Daniel
46. Nguyen, Scotty
47. Nikzad, Hooman (Caesars Palace qualifier)
48. Hooman Nikzad (to be determined)
49. Pham, David
50. Raymer, Greg
51. Rousso, Vanessa
52. Schneider, Tom
53. Schreiber, Daniel
54. Seed, Huck
55. Seidel, Erik
56. Singer, David
57. Smith, Gavin
58. Tilly, Jennifer
59. Townsend, Brian
60. Tran, J.C.
61. Tran, Kenny
62. Wasicka, Paul
63. Williams, David
64. Yang, Jerry

The event will be broadcast on NBC starting on April 13