2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Bracket Contest

To find the link to submit a bracket, scroll down to the “Rules” section.

One of the most exciting, fun poker tournaments of the year is less than 24 hours away, and CardPlayer.com wants to help build the excitement and give our readers an extra reason to root on their favorite players.

The 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is tentatively scheduled to kick off Friday at 1 p.m. PT, and we’re hosting a free NBC Heads-Up bracket contest for our readers to submit their predictions. What’s more, whoever makes the best picks and tops the leader board can win a share of around $1,000 in prizes. The top 10 finishers on the bracket leader board will snag prizes. (See the full list of prizes below.)

Once the tournament begins, you can follow along with CardPlayer.com’s live updates from the event to find out how you’re doing. We’ll periodically announce the leader-board leaders in our live updates, so you might see your name (or screen name) in our live coverage! You also can visit our NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship landing page to get information about the event and view previous years’ brackets for players’ track records in the event.

RULES:

Go to the bracket website here and click “Predict It!” in the upper-left to submit your bracket

The tournament is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m. PT on Friday, March 5, so that’s the deadline for bracket prediction submissions. (If the event starts earlier, brackets submitted after the event starts will not be counted.)

All you have to do is pick a winner for each single-elimination match. (Since they’re single-elimination, you don’t need to type in anything in the “Score” field.) The final heads-up match is a best-of-three game, so please enter a score there to be used as a possible tie-breaker.

Each bracket’s score is determined by adding 1 point for each correctly predicted first-round game, then doubling for each additional round (for instance, 2 points for second-round games, 4 points for third-round games, and so on). In the event that multiple people end with the same leader-board score and the same tie-breaker answer, the winner will be determined by the bracket that had the most correct players in the Final Four (and, if still tied, the Elite Eight, and so on). If that final step doesn’t resolve a tie, the tie will be broken through a random drawing.

PRIZES:

1st:

• 1-year subscription to Card Player magazine †
• 1-year subscription to SpadeClub ††
• 1-year subscription to Card Player Pro video training
• Card Player T-shirt (sizes and styles limited)
• WSOPE main-event winner Barry Shulman’s 52 Tips for Texas Hold’em/52 Tips for No-Limit Texas Hold’em
• Card Player mouse pad
• SpadeClub hat
• Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Secrets to Bluffing and Tells DVD
• Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Poker System DVD

2nd:

• 1-year subscription to Card Player magazine †
• 3-month subscription to SpadeClub ††
• 6-month subscription to Card Player Pro video training
• Card Player T-shirt (sizes and styles limited)
• WSOPE main-event winner Barry Shulman’s 52 Tips for Texas Hold’em/52 Tips for No-Limit Texas Hold’em
• Card Player mouse pad
• SpadeClub hat
• Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Secrets to Bluffing and Tells DVD
• Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Poker System DVD

3rd

• 1-year subscription to Card Player magazine †
• 1-month subscription to SpadeClub ††
• 3-month subscription to Card Player Pro video training
• Card Player T-shirt (sizes and styles limited)
• WSOPE main-event winner Barry Shulman’s 52 Tips for Texas Hold’em/52 Tips for No-Limit Texas Hold’em
• Card Player mouse pad
• SpadeClub hat

4th-10th

• Card Player mouse pad
• SpadeClub hat

(Note: Card Player Pro prizes provided by PokerSavvy Plus poker video training)

† U.S. delivery only
†† "Must live in a non-excluded area ":http://www.spadeclub.com/sign-up/excluded-states

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