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At the start of the 2008 NBC National Heads Up Championship, Clubs Bracket, the first round got underway with plenty of folks eager to move up the ladder to round two. There were tons of pros, mostly big names, with a few surprises sprinkled in the mix. In one first round hand a former world champion nearly busted from the word go.

When during the 2008 NBC National Heads Up Championship, the players Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth of the featured table were done in their match in 3 hands, the other players had to fill the air time and thus got more hands in play.

During the 2008 NBC National Heads Up Championship, the first round had Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth at the featured table, where a pre game interview revealed that there was a little history between the two. Phil had challenged Tom, who he said had gotten cocky when they played online, to a game in the “real world” and we were about to see that game take place.

2008 NBC National Heads Up Championship, Clubs Bracket, and the first round match up of Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth at the featured table was already over, with Hellmuth busting on hand three. Now it was time for other players to have a shot at the limelight.

During the pre game interview with Gabe Kaplan, the old comedian showed his stuff when he said he thought it was cruel that their match up was labeled “Beauty and the Beast” and that his opponent, Patrick Antonious, might be hurt by the label “Beast.”

Sam Grizzle, who once punched Phil Hellmuth in the jaw during a game, was a veteran of many No Limit Texas Holdem games, but it was his first time on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

At first pro poker players can get a little star struck when a movie star sits down at the table. If they let themselves get confused or fancy, the amateur player might even make off with some of their money.

When the first round of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship got underway, it was four brackets of a total of sixty four poker pros and celebrities all trying to knock each other out of the running, one by one. A match up that folks figured they could call with all confidence was Orel Hershiser vs. Ted Forrest.

During a big game like NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship one would expect to find pro poker players, newly minted poker experts, and the occasional movie star, but not a baseball player.

When two poker players have the same hand, such as a pair of aces, how do you know who wins? Unless you are using some home game rules, it isn't by the suit, as many think, but rather who has the highest card after the pair.