NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship To ReturnShow That Had Classic Hellmuth vs. Dwan Moment Back In January |
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The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, a causality of Black Friday, will return in late January, the show’s production company announced early Thursday via Twitter.
The TV episodes will begin airing in March and run for six consecutive weeks.
Press release soon, but NBC HeadsUp is back – Jan 24-26 at Caesars Palace. Invites going out.
— POKER PROductions (@Poker_Prod) December 6, 2012
The invitational pitted 64 players against each other in a single-elimination heads-up format. Phil Hellmuth won first in 2005, followed by Ted Forrest (2006), Paul Wasicka (2007), Chris Ferguson (2008), Huck Seed (2009), Annie Duke (2010) and Erik Seidel (2011).
The TV show had many memorable poker moments of the years. Here’s a look at one of the classic heads-up matches before the tournament took a one-year hiatus.
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