January 26 2013, by mr4b
NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship Quarter Finals
The NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship 2013 has now reached the quarter finals. Last night saw two rounds played, and the least that can be said is that the battles were endless.
In the second round, we lost big names such as Jonathan Duhamel, Shaun Deeb, or even Kyle Julius. Online legend Viktor Blom was also eliminated, as well as Justin Bonomo.
in the Hearts and Diamonds pools, Phil Galfond couldn’t resits to Eugene Katchalov, and Chris Moneymaker fought well but fell on a very good David Sands. Gaelle Baumann had a tough mission against the GPI#1, and also saw her tournament ending.
In the 3rd round, with battles opposing Antonio Esfandiari to Daniel Cates, Vanessa Rousso to Scott Seiver, Mike Matusow to Barry Greenstein, John Hennigan to Phil Ivey, Joseph Cheong to Eugene Katchalov, Phil Hellmuth to David Sands, Tom Dwan to Brian Hastings, and Joseph Serock to Dan Smith.
Here are the results and the players advancing to the quarter finals.
| Daniel Cates | United States | Unranked |
| Scott Seiver | United States | GPI#48 |
| Mike Matusow | United States | GPI#700 |
| John hennigan | United States | GPI#386 |
| Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | GPI#20 |
| Phil Hellmuth | United States | GPI#13 |
| Brian Hastings | United States | GPI#339 |
| Joseph Serock | United States | GPI#27 |
The best ranked player left is Phil Hellmuth, GPI#13. Although he will have a tough mission playing against Eugene Katchalov (GPI#20) the second best ranked player in this field.
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Eugene Katchalov / Heads Up / NBC / Phil Hellmuth / Poker
Mr4b discovered poker randomly in 2005 and fell in love with this skill game. First playing live at the DeepStack Open tournaments as well as online, he then decided to work in the industry and joined the Chilipoker team as a community manager. He now works for the Global Poker index as a Social Media and Content Manager. Passionate about the online world and social networks, as well as basket ball, or sports in general!
