{"id":7061,"date":"2014-03-03T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/03\/nbc-national-heads-up-poker-championship-not-running-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:20:29","slug":"nbc-national-heads-up-poker-championship-not-running-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/03\/nbc-national-heads-up-poker-championship-not-running-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Not Running In 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i62.tinypic.com\/2hnqut2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tThe NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship will not run this year. This despite last year\u2019s final between Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow being pretty epic.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe show\u2019s producer, Mori Eskandani, told Card Player on Friday that it was the \u201cnetwork\u2019s decision\u201d for \u201cso many different reasons.\u201d The event was broadcast on NBC Sports last year, instead of the main network like it had been in the past. The event lost steam after Black Friday in April 2011, when the major offshore poker sites \u2014 Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker \u2014 shut down their U.S.-facing operations. The tournament didn\u2019t run in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe $20,000 buy-in is an invitational and features 64 players. Some of the game\u2019s best, as well as celebrities who like to dabble in poker, have played over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\tDespite the lack of a running this year, Eskandani is very excited for the tournament\u2019s future \u2014 2015 and beyond. He said that \u201csome really exciting news\u201d about the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is expected to be announced in March. He added that \u201cnegotiations are ongoing\u201d, but that the tournament is in a \u201cpretty good spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship will not run this year. This despite last year\u2019s final between Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow being pretty epic. The show\u2019s producer, Mori Eskandani, told Card Player on Friday that it was the \u201cnetwork\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}