The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an annual poker tournament held in the United States and produced by the NBC television network.[1] It is a $20,000 buy-in invitation-only tournament[2] organized as a series of one-on-one games of no limit Texas hold 'em matches. The participants include many of the world's best poker players. The championship was the first poker event to be televised on a major U.S. broadcast network and the first to be produced by a television network.Here you can watch World Heads-Up Championship
poker videos The idea for the tournament was spawned from the success of the World Heads-Up Poker Championship[citation needed], held annually in at various locations in Europe, although only one World Heads-Up Champion ("Miami" John Cernuto) has competed in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship to date. The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an invitation-only event. In contrast, the World Heads-Up Poker Championship is an open event with a maximum participation of 128 players.