Poker Stars and Full Tilt cooperating with Harrahs to offer Heads Up Poker Championship seats
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In an announcement that’s a bit more significant than the typical online poker promotion, PokerStars.net revealed this week that they’ll be offering the opportunity for a PokerStars player to fill one of the four seats not already assigned for the 2008 Heads Up Poker Championship (a list of the sixty assigned seats follows at the end of the article). The news comes just days after Full Tilt Poker announced a similar promotion.
The interesting angle here is that Harrah’s has seemed very cautious about any sort of cooperation with US-facing online poker rooms post-UIGEA. Both promotions are being offered through the dot-net versions of the rooms, but the open endorsement and active partnership (one assumes, since there’s a limited number of seats for the HUPC) between Harrah’s and the two online poker rooms may suggest some sort of sea change in the relationship between US casinos and online poker rooms.
Both Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars are running the promotion as a multi-stage freeroll tournament. It appears that the remaining two seats will be filled by satellite winners at Caesars Las Vegas.
Here’s the list of the 60 seats already assigned. Thanks to Pokerati for being the easiest copy of this list to find:
1. Alexander, Jason
2. Antonius, Patrik
3. Bellande, Jean-Robert
4. Benyamine, David
5. Brown, Chad
6. Brunson, Doyle
7. Brunson, Todd
8. Chan, Johnny
9. Cheadle, Don
10. Clements, Scott
11. Cloutier, T.J.
12. Cunningham, Allen
13. Deeb, Freddy
14. Duke, Annie
15. Dwan, Tom
16. Edler, Bill
17. Elezra, Eli
18. Elizabeth, Shannon
19. Esfandiari, Antonio
20. Farha, Sam
21. Ferguson, Chris
22. Fischman, Scott
23. Forrest, Ted
24. Garrett, Brad
25. Gold, Jamie
26. Gowen, Clonie
27. Greenstein, Barry
28. Grizzle, Sam
29. Hachem, Joe
30. Hansen, Gus
31. Harman, Jennifer
32. Hellmuth, Phil
33. Hershiser, Orel
34. Ivey, Phil
35. Juanda, John
36. Kaplan, Gabe
37. Laak, Phil
38. Lederer, Howard
39. Lindgren, Erick
40. Little, Jonathan
41. Matusow, Mike
42. Mizrachi, Michael
43. Negreanu, Daniel
44. Nguyen, Scotty
45. Pham, David
46. Raymer, Greg
47. Rousso, Vanessa
48. Schneider, Tom
49. Schreiber, Daniel
50. Seed, Huck
51. Seidel, Erik
52. Singer, David
53. Smith, Gavin
54. Tilly, Jennifer
55. Townsend, Brian
56. Tran, J.C.
57. Tran, Kenny
58. Wasicka, Paul
59. Williams, David
60. Yang, Jerry
