NBC Heads-Up Championship SPOILERS-DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!

#1 8th March 2011, 5:57 AM

Seidel Wins NBC Heads-Up Title

Erik Seidel’s incredible year continues to get even better after he bested a field of 64 players to beat Chris Moneymaker heads-up to win $750,000 in the 2011 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship.

Seidel has been in stunning form this year and this win takes him ahead of Daniel Negreanu to take first place in earnings on the all-time tournament leaderboard. So far this year, Seidel has earned close to $4.5 million in just over two months, a truly incredible feat. This event is his third major event as well as making six final tables.

Eight hopefuls came back in the final day hoping to take down the title. Olivier Busquet faced World Series of Poker 2010 main event champion Jonathan Duhamel and was bested by him, while David Oppenheim was beat by Moneymaker. Youngster Andrew Robl beat Frenchman David Benyamine in the third quarter final and Seidel beat the last woman standing Vanessa Selbst.

With 4 remaining, three World Series bracelet holders stood among them and two of those would advance to the final. Seidel beat out Andrew Robl, who was looking to win his first major career title and he was joined on the rail by Jonathan Duhamel. Chris Moneymaker advanced to the finals securing $300,000 his biggest payday since 2003. Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker back in 2003 after winning a $40 satellite on PokerStars and was the man largely credited for the poker boom. He would face the aforementioned Seidel, runner-up to Johnny Chan in the 1988 World Series of Poker main event.

The final is a best-of-three match and in the end Seidel came out on top. He was in stunning form and Moneymaker never really got going. Eventually when it all went in, Moneymaker found himself drawing dead by the turn, leaving him with $300,000 and Seidel left with the trophy and $750,000. This is his second final in this championship in a row after coming 2nd last year to Annie Duke.

#2 8th March 2011, 5:58 AM

Thoughts?

#3 8th March 2011, 6:28 AM

now seidel is first on the money list...he had superated first phil ivey and then daniel negreanu so is the player who have win most money in live tourney!!!

#4 8th March 2011, 7:06 AM

What does superated mean?

#5 8th March 2011, 4:04 PM

Erik Seidel's on a roll this year!

#6 8th March 2011, 4:08 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnBoyWWFC

What does superated mean?

Not sure but I'm definitely going to use it in future

#7 8th March 2011, 4:12 PM

Ha, I didn't even realize this event had already gone off this year. Should be fun to watch even if I already know the winner.

#8 8th March 2011, 4:21 PM

Seidel is just a beast. I did want Moneymaker to win though for lolz.

#9 8th March 2011, 5:38 PM

i wish moneymaker had won

#10 8th March 2011, 7:04 PM

Seidel and Trickett have both been absolute beasts this year. One went out round 1, the other won it haha

#11 9th March 2011, 11:42 AM

The event was probably interesting, only if it wasn't for NBC's shitty coverage. They almost exclusively showed the all-ins. WTF? I want to see some play, not when someone sucks out with A5 vs AJ. That's just... :X

#12 9th March 2011, 2:41 PM

Afaik there isn't any play cos the stacks are always pretty short

#13 9th March 2011, 2:44 PM

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Originally Posted by onemorechance

Afaik there isn't any play cos the stacks are always pretty short

What's the point of it being televised then? There is more than enough play to be seen with the stacks they had, IMO.

#14 10th March 2011, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by _dogmeat

What's the point of it being televised then? There is more than enough play to be seen with the stacks they had, IMO.

Advertising and sponsorship revenue is the point. To get that the show needs ratings and to get ratings they show what Joe Public likes - all in hands, not the piddly little pots.

Plus there's a hell of a lot of matches to cover, especially in the early rounds, and they pretty much have to show the elimination hands (which are obviously all in). That doesn't leave time for lots else.

As for Seidel winning, I totally picked it - see the other thread

#15 10th March 2011, 12:29 AM

Erik Seidel is truely great for going to back to back head up championship because in my opinion head up is the toughest to play.

#16 10th March 2011, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ckickenking

Erik Seidel is truely great for going to back to back head up championship because in my opinion head up is the toughest to play.

I don't know if you noticed or not, but he was 2nd last year.

Edit: Hope that didn't come across as me sounding like an a*hole, just an FYI.

#17 10th March 2011, 3:08 AM

They should have rigged it so Tom Dwan would have played jungleman

#18 10th March 2011, 6:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Riverrr

They should have rigged it so Tom Dwan would have played jungleman

Final table would've been delayed indefinitely if that had've happened

#19 11th March 2011, 2:54 AM

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