NLOP Awards $20,000 Seat to 2010 National Heads Up Poker Championship!

CONGRATS TO THE 2010 NATIONAL HEADS-UP ONLINE POKER CHALLENGE CHAMPION!

Fort Dodge, Iowa native Dan Ramirez won the chance to appear on NBC’s National Heads Up Poker Championship this upcoming March. Ramirez outplayed a field of thousands of online poker players to earn one of the 64 coveted seats at the National Heads Up Poker Championship (NHPC).
The annual event is held at Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV from March 4th to March 7th and will be televised in a 6-episode series beginning April 18th on NBC. Dan will appear on NBC televised series and play against 63 of poker’s best players vying for the $500,000 grand prize.

Here's what the winner had to say:
“I have recently had eye-surgery so I have been able to play a lot of online poker while recovering,” Ramirez said. “I am so excited to play against many of the people I watch on TV. I am a huge poker fan. I first registered in October and now I’m going to Las Vegas to play against the pros for a chance at $500,000! It’s just unbelievable…this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!”

The final tournament started slowly for Ramirez who kept telling himself that he had learned how to be patient playing on the Zen Gaming Network. “I was card dead for about an hour,” he noted. “I just assumed I was out of luck when I turned it around and doubled through twice. The tide-shifting hand was later when Ramirez, with about 50,000 chips, raised with A-K on the button and was pushed all in by the big blind’s A-Q. Ramirez’s hand held up, he established the chip lead, and never relinquished it.

Ramirez road gets tougher. He will face stiff competition at the NHPC, as some of the world’s best known players will be in attendance including 11-time World Series of Poker Champion Phil Hellmuth, 7-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey, and former NHPC winners Chris Ferguson and Huck Seed. The single-elimination, bracket-style tournament is modeled after the college basketball championship. Players who win a match advance to the next round; the player who wins six matches in a row is crowned champion. Click Here to Learn More

Good Luck, Dan!
Pnlop,
NLOP Tournament Director