National Heads Up Poker Championship
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is NBC’s invitation-only heads-up tournament with a $20,000 buy-in. The game played is No-limit Texas Hold’em.
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship tournament is basically a “play-off” tournament where the winner of a heads-up game advances to the next round. Players are divided into four brackets and the winners of these brackets advance to semi-finals. Best-of-three wins in the final heads-up match.
64 of the world best poker players start in the first round of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Ali Nejad is the commentator of the show. Winners include names such as Chris Ferguson (twice), Phil Hellmuth and Ted Forrest.