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Here is the full list of players:
1. Gaelle Baumann
2. Jean Robert Bellande
3. Andy Bloch
4. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom
5. Liv Boeree
6. Justin Bonomo
7. Doyle Brunson
8. Olivier Busquet
9. Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates
10. Mohsin Charania
11. Joseph Cheong
12. Shaun Deeb
13. Jonathan Duhamel
14. Tom "durrrr" Dwan
15. Eli Elezra
16. Antonio Esfandiari
17. Will Failla
18. Andy Frankenberger
19. Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond
20. Matt Glantz
21. Barry Greenstein
22. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
23. Jennifer Harman
24. Brian Hastings
25. Isaac Haxton
26. Phil Hellmuth
27. John Hennigan
28. Maria Ho
29. Phil Ivey
30. Faraz Jaka
31. Kyle Julius
32. Eugene Katchalov
33. Phil Laak
34. Ben Lamb
35. Andrew Lichtenberger
36. Matt Matros
37. Mike Matusow
38. Jason Mercier
39. Greg Merson
40. Michael Mizrachi
41. Chris Moneymaker
42. John Monnette
43. Chris Moorman
44. Carlos Mortensen
45. Daniel Negreanu
46. David Oppenheim
47. Greg Raymer
48. Vanessa Rousso
49. Rob Salaburu
50. Matt Salsberg
51. Nick Schulman
52. Huck Seed
53. Erik Seidel
54. Scott Seiver
55. Joe Serock
56. Mike Sexton
57. Sam Simon
58. Dan Smith
59. Justin Smith
60. Jason Somerville
61. Jennifer Tilly
62. Yevgeniy Timoshenko
63. David Williams
64. WSOP.com Qualifier
Personally I thoroughly dislike all forms of tournaments. Just too much luck-boxing going on. Just look at this field: Jungleman & Isildur stand out a mile. Haxton, maybe Durr & Ivey are next in line. After that there is a huge gap imo. Sit any of these names down in heads up cash with Isildur or the Jungleman for a few k of hands and they will be badly r**ed. Yet one of them will likely win this thing. It's just wrongness. Heads up is the purest form of poker but not with this one buy-in knockout structure. If they all had say 5 buy-ins each game (or something resembling the structure for the recent online HU challenge) then the cream would have a much higher chance of rising to the top. As it stands it's just muck & bullets and the one who wins 4 flips in a row will take this down. I just can't take it seriously tbh as any kind of guide to skill level.
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Just because they don't all play online, doesn't mean they can't hold their own.
It's an invitational for television. It doesn't mean the winner is the best HU NLH player ever. Unless the winner is Isildur...
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i think there is some good competition,and dont understand why just isildur and jungleman are so much in front..if that was the case,i am sure cates would play day and night...i think there is more then 20 players capable to handle and they are really great players...
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Cheers guys, but I really do think there is a huge gap between the two I gave special mention to and most of the others.
They are on another planet to 90% of this field at HU NLH. It really is true.
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WCS064 (2013-01-19)
curry_dan (2013-01-19)
Just because they don't all play online, doesn't mean they can't hold their own. It's an invitational for television. It doesn't mean the winner is the best HU NLH player ever. Unless the winner is Isildur...
Exactly. NBC doesn't put on this event to determine who the best HU player on the planet is. Everyone knows its a single elimination sng format and winning it doesn't make you a great HU player. Some pretty terrible players have won it before. As far as poker exposure on a network TV station, this is as big as it gets. It is shown in the middle of the day on the weekend instead of at 2am on weekdays like PAD. They didn't have it last year, I thought it was gone for good, it's a very positive sign that it's back. To justify the time slot and attract a wider audience, they invite who they think people want to watch, not the best HU players. Catering to a wide audience instead of a poker obsessed one is a common theme in poker programming, but it doesn't stop people here from complaining about it every time. We should be grateful. If they invited the 64 best HU players in the world, no one but people like us would watch. Sure, it'd be great TV for us, but it wouldn't be on in the middle of the day and it wouldn't attract any new players, which is what we should all want.
True.
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In before burger luckboxes through the entire thing.
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When does it start?
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onlyamonkey (2013-01-19)
In before burger luckboxes through the entire thing.
With his made for TV burger advertisment champion all-American douche cheeze grin 
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i love how people think they are able to judge who the best players are.
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