There’s not much this particular blogger likes more than a duel between the best. Apart from maybe a full fridge of beverages but lets not focus on that now. Anyhow I recently posted about NBC’s heads up poker championship and only the other day the series of matches that constitutes this event was played out in a secret poker lair hidden in a even more secretive underground bunker (aka a casino in Vegas.)

The big names were out in force and split equally over the four brackets of the competition. Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs all played out over the first day of the competition and some surprising outcomes were seen as the field thinned.

Vanessa Rousso a relative no name compared to those who she was up against provided the necessary surprise beating Brunson and Ivey in consecutive matches. She went further through to round 4 where she met Daniel Negreanu and beat him down also.

Incidentally Negreanu livened up the early stages of the tournament in his third round against Scotty Nguyen where he dressed in a curly black wig and gold jewelery in imitation of his opponent. He also put on an accent and littered his speech with the term “baby”. Luckily he not only pissed off his opponent but survived the grueling encounter.

However the outstanding performance of the tournament belongs to a certain Huck Seed. Mr Seed beat out strong comer Gus Hansen in the opening round and then proceeded to steam roll his way to the final. Where he met the other outstanding performer of the tournament Miss Rousso. The two made for an excellent final and finished the tournament in style with Seed coming out on top.