For all ya'll wondering how to be invited to the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, read this...

The NHUPC, yes, it's a big poker tournament that doesn't have WSOP written on it.

While majority of the poker players around the world are probably anxious for the 2008 World Series of Poker, the rest who have no plans competing on this year's WSOP event probably has the NHUPC in mind.

And that's the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. But unlike the WSOP, the event's selection process is a little more complicated. In fact, the NHUPC selection committee has implemented a list of criteria that will result to automatic invites to the heads-up tournament probably to avoid the confusion.

This year's field is loaded with the top players in the game. That includes 11 former heads-up champions, six WPT players of the year and a combined 112 WSOP bracelets.

Here is the list of criteria.

• Previous five National Heads-Up Poker Champions
• Previous two National Heads-Up runners-up
• Defending National Heads-Up semifinalists
• Any player who cashes in the past four consecutive years of the NHUPC
• Previous three World Series of Poker main event champions
• Defending World Series of Poker main event runner-up
• Beginning with the 2008 WSOP, multiple-bracelet winners in the same year will receive an automatic invitation to the next Heads-Up Championship
• Defending World Series of Poker Player of the Year
• Defending World Series of Poker Heads-Up Champion
• Defending World Series of Poker Europe main event champion (must be 21 or older)
• Reigning World Poker Tour Player of the Year
• Reigning Monte Carlo European Poker Tour Grand Final Champion (must be 21 or older)
• Reigning Card Player magazine Player of the Year
• Reigning Bluff magazine Player of the Year
• Reigning ALL IN magazine Player of the Year
• Online and NBC qualifiers (1-3) (must be 21 or older)
• Host venue qualifiers (2)

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