NBC Cancels Popular Heads Up TV Show

October 16th, 2011 - NBC announced earlier this week that they have cancelled the National Heads Up Championship for 2012.  The Championship becomes another post black friday casualty of the poker television world, with Full Tilt and PokerStars funded programming becoming relatively non existent in the USA in recent months.

The show has aired for the last 7 years and has enjoyed modest success.  Poker media sources CardPlayer, PartTimePoker and WickedChops, who originally broke the story, all speculate that the HUC may survive in some form, at some point in the future, due to the previous success of the event and the popularity among players.

Previous winners include Phil Helmuth in 2005, Ted Forrest, Paul Wasicka, Chris Ferguson, Huck Seed, Annie Duke and the most recent winner, Erik Seidel.  Heads up poker specialist Olivier "livb112" Busquet made the quarter finals in 2011.