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Tune into NBC TV at Noon - 3PM ET / 9AM - Noon PT for the finale of the 6th Annual NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship today, Sunday May 23. Three hours of top level poker pros playing the semifinal matches and the best-of-three final matches for the prestigious title.

Begin the three hour episode with the four surviving players from the elite, invitation-only starting field of 64. Watch poker history in the making as Annie Duke notches the first win by a female player in the history of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

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On Friday, February 19, stars such as Tony Hawk, Christian Slater, Brad Garrett, Jason Alexander, Joanna Krupa, Montel Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, Marlon Waynes and Slash were among the 39 players who competed in the $540 event in The Venetian Poker Room - raising more than $42,000 for Three Square, a food charity in Southern Nevada.

This inaugural poker event started off on the right foot with over 872 poker players registering for the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament with many well-known names in the international poker scene.

Friday’s tournament saw some big celebrity names battle it out on the poker tables including:

AJ Buckley from CSI NY, Nicholas Gonzalez and Shaun Sipos of CW’s Melrose Place and UFC fighter Tito Ortiz.

Christian Slater was amazingly friendly and a fan favorite. He kept jumping up from the poker table to take photos with the fans lining the aisles. A bounty was put on Daniel Negreanu and the prize - a signed guitar by Slash - went to actor Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie said he was going to give the guitar to his son.

Zak “Zakooza” Alameddine from New York won the event and a ticket into next year’s PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. He beat top poker pros such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, world champion Joe Cada, Gavin Griffin, Dennis Phillips, Chris Moneymaker and Vanessa Rousso.

Baseball legend, Orel Hershiser, came second winning a seat in the NAPT Mohegan Sun event in April.  John Beveridge from Henderson, Nevada, came third and won a seat into today’s $5,000 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Venetian Main Event which is set to attract more than 800 players.

After playing in the tournament, the stars headed up to TAO Nightclub for cocktails, hors dourves and a special musical performance by recording artist T-Pain.

-    Christian Slater was seeing talking with Marlon Waynes and taking more photos with party guests and snacking on chicken satay.

-    Poker great Phil Hellmuth was seen relaxing in the VIP area with Brad Garrett and his friend enjoying a few cocktails.

-    Joanna Krupa mingled with  Tony Hawk then turned her attention to T-Pain and danced to the music.

-    Melrose Place stars Nicholas Gonzalez and Shaun Sipos also hung out in the VIP area and spoke about how much they love Tao and The Palazzo and can’t wait to come back.

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The newest member of Team Full Tilt is the 23-year old online heads-up master, Tom “durrrr” Dwan. His skills have earned him over $1.1 million in career tournament wins, and he has probably earned more money by playing poker online than anyone else before him.

“durrrr” started out playing online poker when he was a student at Boston University, playing mostly small stakes Sit ‘n’ Go’s and then eventually moving on to ring games. Dwan moved on to playing heads-up poker games against other notable poker professionals, and most times was very successful in these games.

It was reported that in 2008 alone, “durrrr” earned as much as $5.4 million by playing online poker at Full Tilt. However, it hasn’t all been good news for Tom Dwan as some estimates state that he may have lost as much as $1,000,000 at Full Tilt Poker since January 2007.

At the beginning of this year, “durrrr” issued a million dollar challenge to anyone who would accept. The “durrrr” Challenge consists of 50,000 hands of heads-up poker with $1.5 million of Dwan’s money against $500,000 of his competitor’s. Various poker pros have accepted the challenge, although the only player to have actually played in the poker challenge is Patrik Antonius.

Dwan has cashed in at the WSOP twice, one time he took away $54,144 and the second time he walked away with $45,110. “durrrr” has also participated in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, where he took down Phil Hellmuth before being eliminated by Mike Matusow.

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World leading online poker site PokerStars.com has teamed up with amfAR, a non profit organization dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research, to launch an exclusive celebrity charity poker tournament to raise awareness and funds to combat the Global Aids epidemic.

“amfAR is grateful to Poker Stars for providing this opportunity to bring AIDS awareness to a new audience and to raise critical funds for AIDS research,” said Gregory Boroff, amfAR’s vice president and director of development.

The event is set to take place at the luxurious Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island on January 8th, 2010. Several high profile celebs, sports stars and leading poker pros are expected to take part in the $5,250 event. Half the entire prize pool will go to amfAR to support their research and help raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Among the confirmed celebs attending the charity event are NHL player and Olympic gold medalist Mats Sundin, tennis legend Boris Becker and French rugby star Sebastien Chabal as well as members of Team PokerStars Pro.

“PokerStars is bringing a truly innovative and fulfilling cause to the PCA this year through their partnership with amfAR. As a member of Team PokerStars Pro, I feel very lucky to be able to participate in, and contribute to, such a worthwhile cause in the name of AIDS research.”  said Team PokerStars Pro member, Daniel Negreanu.

Both PokerStars.net and PokerStars.com will be offering online qualifying satellites to give players the chance to win a trip to the Bahamas and play alongside the celebs, sports stars and poker pro’s in the amfAR event. PokerStars.net will be hosting regular freerolls from now until December 6 while PokerStars.com will be running $5 satellites until December 13.

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