Huck Seed wins the NBC Head's Up Championship

This is a little late but poker pro Huck Seed took down the NBC Head's Up Championship when he defeated poker "cutie" Vanessa Rousso in two straight games (best out of three). Seed earned $500,000 and Rousso won $250,000 after defeating Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Paul Wasicka on her way to the championship match.



Seed is now 18-4 in the NBC Head's Up Championship, which is the best record out of all the players.



You can check out the full summary of the tournament at Cardplayer.

Poker player Vanessa Rousso in SI Swimsuit Issue?

There have been rumors flying in the online poker community that poker player Vanessa Rousso was going to be featured in this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as a special guest model.

Apparently those rumors are false... sort of. Rousso is appearing in the magazine, but only in a paid advertisement by Poker Stars.

According to some members of 2+2, Rousso did indeed do a swimsuit shoot for Sports Illustrated but was ultimately left out of the final draft of this year's special issue.

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WSOP Update

From Pokernews.com:

When Day 3 came to a close, 474 players remained with two former WSOP Champions among them: Phil Hellmuth and Johnny Chan. Along with the chip leaders, listed below, Day 3 survivors included Matt Matros, Mike Matusow, Hoyt Corkins, Jon Friedberg, Chip Jett, Gus Hansen, Jeff Madsen, Brandon Cantu, Evelyn Ng, Allen Cunningham, Carmel Petresco, Bertrand Grospellier, Hevad Khan, Frankie O'Dell, Magnus Petersson, Robert Mizrachi, Jon Turner, Devon Porter, Matt Lessinger, David Colclough, Hasan Habib, Shawn Sheikhan, Maya Geller-Antonius, Victor Ramdin and Mark Vos.

The top ten players following Day 3 action:

Jeremy Joseph -- 1,458,000
Jeremiah Smith -- 1,079,500
Mark Ketteringham -- 950,000
Kyle Carlston -- 932,500
Dag Martin Mikkelsen -- 931,000
Alan Jaffray -- 908,500
Owen Crowe -- 900,000
Alexander Kostritsyn -- 887,000
James McManus -- 875,000
Chris Barrile -- 873,500

And for some video footage, here's poker star Vanessa Rousso and her sisters and mom, you be the judge.