Episode 1

The first-ever National Heads-Up Poker Championship is underway from the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Doyle Brunson and Billy Baxter headline the Clubs bracket. Other match-ups from the Clubs bracket include John Juanda vs. Chau Giang, John Hennigan vs. Layne Flack, Henry Orenstein vs. David "Chip" Reese, Scotty Nguyen vs. Mike Caro, Nick Frangos vs. TJ Cloutier, Amir Vahedi vs. John Myung, and Barry Greenstein vs. Lee Salem. The Spades bracket is also in progress, and those match-ups include Todd Brunson vs. Erick Lindgren, Eli Elezra vs. Chris Moneymaker, Tom McEvoy vs. Mimi Tran, Cyndy Violette vs. Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen vs. Curtis Bibb, Yosh Nakano vs. Mike Sexton, Prahlad Friedman vs. Sammy Farha, and Phil Gordon vs. Hasan Habib.