The armed robbery took place in broad daylight, with the suspects making off with around €100,000 and €300,000. According to German police, the four men remain at large and it is believed they were after the tournament's €3.68 million prize pool.

In a statement made by the EPT, it appears nobody was seriously injured with most events restarting within a few hours and just one $1,000 side event cancelled. Police are currently investigating the incident and have asked the media to hand in any video footage or photographs that could help with the case.

A total of 945 players from 48 countries entered the €5,300 main event, including German tennis legend Boris Becker. In the end, Kevin MacPhee from Finland won the €1 million first prize.

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To get to the final match Duke had to beat Andy Bloch, Darvin Moon, Paul Wasicka, Jerry Yang and finally Dennis Phillips.

In the final round of the 64-player field, Duke took on eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Eric Seidel. Seidel also had his own tough path to carve as he defeated Huck Seed, Chris Moneymaker, Peter Eastgate, Scotty Nguyen and Bodog's own David Williams.

Williams won his first round against last year's WSOP Main Event champion, Joe Cada, before facing Seidel in the second round.

The final showdown between Duke and Seidel will make for great television. Duke scored the win for round one when she took down two huge pots through a straight and a flush before sinking the win with A-K against a flush draw that never came through for Seidel. Keeping things interesting, Seidel went on to win the second round thanks mostly due to scoring a huge pot after flopping trips. Seidel finished round 2 with 8-7 against Duke's K-5.

The final round proved as exciting as you could hope for when Seidel held a 3-1 chip lead only to have Duke come back with a vengeance. Duke put the brakes on her slide when she pushed all-in with Q-9 while Seidel held A-K. Duke caught two pair and made the crucial double up and get a slight chip lead. A short-stacked Seidel ended up shoving with A-2 soon after and Duke called with pocket nines. With no ace hitting the board Duke took down the 2010 NBC Heads-up Poker Championship and the $500,000 that went with it.

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The NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship bracket has just been set with a field of 64. We can look forward to a showdown between Jason Mercier and Daniel Negreanu in the opening round, as both poker pros have been really hot lately. Also, another familiar face will include 2007 World Series of Poker Europe champion the 21-year-old Annette Obrestad and High Stakes Poker’s new host Kara Scott. Other matchups include Phil Hellmuth vs. Howard Lederer, Erick Seidel vs. Huck Seed (the defending champ), as well as Barry Greenstein vs. Vanessa Rousso.

Included among the famous faces of poker, is Team Bodog's David Williams, who has played every year since the show's beginnings in 2005 and was the runner-up to Greg Raymer in the WSOP main event in 2004. Williams will be seated at the featured table facing Joe Cada in the first round. Cada will be making his heads-up debut after winning the World Series of Poker main event in November. Known for playing aggressive poker, Williams is also know for sporting interesting threads including a diamond-studded toothpick that usually gets him razzed by fellow players.

Here’s a list of the best known players selected from the 64 competitors in the NBC's Heads-Up Poker Championship:

Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Don Cheadle, Allen Cunningham, Annie Duke, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Jamie Gold, Phil Gordon, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Orel Hershiser, Jesper Hougaard, John Juanda, Gabe Kaplan, Phil Laak, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, Dario Minieri, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen, Annette Obrestad, Dennis Phillips, Greg Raymer, Kara Scott, Erik Seidel, Mike Sexton, Gavin Smith, Jennifer Tilly, and of course David Williams.

The tournament hits television airwaves on NBC beginning on April 18th and will run for six Sundays consecutively. Play begins Saturday, March 6 at 1 p.m.

Spoiler Alert (for those waiting to watch it on TV)

UPDATE: David Williams has beaten last year's WSOP Main Event winner Joe Cada to advance to the second round on Saturday where he will take on Eric Seidel who beat Huck Seed.

The Oklahoma State Championships of Poker offer a wide array of poker variants to play. Grinders from just about every type of tournament structure were able to find some action that they like. Buy-in amounts were small for most of the action, but the $3K Main Event had a big enough prize pool to attract lots of the state's best players. Find out more about the event in last Friday’s Bodog poker article: 2010 Oklahoma State Championships Of Poker

"0ink0ink0ink" was able to beat out a Bodog regular named "The Nation07″ in the heads-up battle. "The Nation07″ wasn't able to close out the deal, and had to settle for the second-place prize of $15K. "The Nation07″ has had success in the Bodog $100K Guaranteed tournament before, finishing 20th in May of '09. Last Sunday's third-place finisher was "The_DrAin", who received $9500 for his deep run.

The rest of the final table looked like this . . .

4. DUBsnap – $7,000.00

5. Followup – $5,500.00

6. RIC_THEHITMAN – $4,500.00

7. Wu_Wizard – $3,500.00

8. CAN1B3C0W – $2,200.00

9. bergeroo – $1,700.00

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It seems like ages since we last heard from Bodog Pro David Williams, so we at the Beat thought it was high time we checked in with the 'cool as a cucumber' dude from Las Vegas.

"I had a few cashes in the WSOP although I didn't play as many as I normally do. For the previous four years I've played around 33 events, this year I played 12 and cashed in two, with one final table. Not great but not bad at all. I also made a deep run in the NBC Heads Up Poker Championships and finished in fifth, with this being my first time cashing in the event. I really worked on my heads up game and was excited for the event."

Williams tells us that he's getting set to return to the NBC Heads Up Poker Championships, where he hopes to improve on last year's finish. "As soon as that's over it's off to San Jose for the WPT Shooting Stars event at the Bay 101," Williams added. "Then when I come back to Vegas the $5000 buy-in Wynn Poker Classic Main event starts the following Monday."

Taken from the new article, "Catching Up with Bodog Pro David Williams."

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"givemenick" has been on the rise on the online tournament leaderboards and has recently become one of the top 100 online MTT players in the world. The Ostergotlands Lan, Sweden native has numerous big tournament cashes and currently sits in 90th position on the online tournament leaderboards. He caught fire in June 2009 with a victory in a Monthly Million for $157,100 and a second-place finish in a $750K Guarantee for another $82,600. As well, in October 2009 he won the Sunday Mulligan for $53,800.

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In Event #2 only 351 players showed up for the action. The shorter field only created a $170K prize pool, but the action was still plenty fierce. In the end it was Tou Kue who had all the poker chips and walked away with nearly $27K. He beat out Scot MacKenzie in the heads-up battle, sending MacKenzie along to the rail in short order.

The Main Event had 224 players playing for a prize pool of $326k. This event was won by Dwyte Pilgrim, who got a $50K-plus check for his finish. Pilgrim beat up on Micah Raskin, who finished second for $50K of his own.

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This year's tournament features poker pros Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Cada and last year's Heads-Up finalists Vanessa Rousso and Huckleberry Seed.  

"It takes a lot of skill and mental toughness to get through a field of such exceptional players," last year's Heads-Up champion Huck Seed was quoted as saying in a Feb. 16 press release. "But I look forward to defending my title and trying to win it again." 

Unlike the NCAA Basketball Tournament, however, the National Heads-Up Poker Championship finals is a best-of-three format, with the first-place finisher receiving $500,000 and the second-place finisher taking home $250,000.
 
The single-elimination competition begins Friday, March 5 at noon and continues through Sunday, March 7.

If you've never played online poker at Bodog before then now is the perfect time to sign up for a free Bodog Account. From now until March 14th, Bodog Poker is running a very cool "Ultimate Sports Fan Experience" with tickets to next year's MLB World Series, NHL Stanley Cup Final, NBA Finals and the Super Bowl to be won.

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"Rataveli" is no stranger to the winner’s circle, having posted numerous multi-table tournament cashes over the last two years including eight final tables. One of those final tables was a win in a $70K Guaranteed event for $12K last April. His biggest cash of almost $44K came from a fourth-place finish in a $750K Guaranteed tournament.

"Rataveli" has been on a roll of late. Besides his recent Bodog $100K victory, he also had a seventh-place tournament finish two weeks ago worth over $16K. The 24-year-old Minneapolis native can also be found playing no-limit and pot-limit holdem $1/$2 to $2/$4 cash games.

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