The tournament will take place at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on March 4th, With the $25,000 buy-in, 64 players generated a $1,8 million prize pool, out of which the winner will get $750,000.
The entire field:
1. Alexander, Jason
2. Antonius, Patrik
3. Baldwin, Eric
4. Benyamine, David
5. Bloch, Andy
6. Boeree, Liv
7. Bord, James
8. Brunson, Doyle
9. Cada, Joe
10. Cates, Daniel
11. Chan, Johnny
12. Cheadle, Don
13. Chouity, Nicolas
14. Cunningham, Allen
15. Duhamel, Jonathan
16. Duke, Annie
17. Dwan, Tom
18. Eastgate, Peter
19. Elezra, Eli
20. Esfandiari, Antonio
21. Ferguson, Chris
22. Forrest, Ted
23. Galfond, Phil
24. Gordon, Phil
25. Greenstein, Barry
26. Grospellier, Bertrand
27. Hachem, Joe
28. Hansen, Gus
29. Harman, Jennifer
30. Hellmuth, Phil
31. Ivey, Phil
32. Jaka, Faraz
33. Juanda, John
34. Kaplan, Gabe
35. Kassela, Frank
36. Katchalov, Eugene
37. Laak, Phil
38. Lederer, Howard
39. Lindgren, Erick
40. Mahmood, Ayaz
41. Marchese, Thomas
42. Matusow, Mike
43. Mercier, Jason
44. Mizrachi, Michael
45. Mizzi, Sorel
46. Moneymaker, Chris
47. Negreanu, Daniel
48. Nguyen, Scotty
49. Obrestad, Annette
50. Phillips, Dennis
51. Pilgrim, Dwyte
52. Racener, John
53. Raymer, Greg
54. Rousso, Vanessa
55. Scott, Kara
56. Seed, Huck
57. Seidel, Erik
58. Selbst, Vanessa
59. Smith, Emmitt
60. Smith, Gavin
61. Tilly, Jennifer
62. Whitmire, Melburn
63. Williams, David
64. Young, Justin
The list of the player is filled with the best players from all around the world, some of them are regular participants of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship series, others are newcomers to the tournament. Annie Duke was last year's winner, and she'll be there again to defend her title. Daniel Negreanu, her biggest "enemy" will also be there, if the two meet at a heads-up table, that could bring about some heated action.
They are not the only "couple" to have a disagreement, both John Racener and Sorel Mizzi are in the field, who got into a disagreement as we wrote a few days ago; Racener accused Mizzi with cheating at Chinese poker at the PCA.
Last year's final table:
