By Kevin Felix | January 22, 2008

NBC has released an updated list of invitees for its fourth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC), to be contested at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Out of the field of 64, only four seats remain (provided all of the invitees accept the offer and plunk down $20,000), which will go to various promotional winners.

The list features fifteen new faces to the NHUPC including two actors (Jason Alexander and Brad Garrett), one former star athlete (Orel Hershiser), one WSOP champion (Jerry Yang), and five internet stars (Daniel “Rekrul” Schreiber, Brian “sbrugby” Townsend, Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little, Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, and Tom “durrrr” Dwan).

All three past NHUPC champions – Phil Hellmuth (2005), Ted Forrest (2006), and Paul Wasicka (2007) — have been invited back.

Updated NHUPC Invite List

1. Alexander, Jason
2. Antonius, Patrik
3. Bellande, Jean-Robert
4. Benyamine, David
5. Brown, Chad
6. Brunson, Doyle
7. Brunson, Todd
8. Chan, Johnny
9. Cheadle, Don
10. Clements, Scott
11. Cloutier, T.J.
12. Cunningham, Allen
13. Deeb, Freddy
14. Duke, Annie
15. Dwan, Tom
16. Edler, Bill
17. Elezra, Eli
18. Elizabeth, Shannon
19. Esfandiari, Antonio
20. Farha, Sam
21. Ferguson, Chris
22. Fischman, Scott
23. Forrest, Ted
24. Garrett, Brad
25. Gold, Jamie
26. Gowen, Clonie
27. Greenstein, Barry
28. Grizzle, Sam
29. Hachem, Joe
30. Hansen, Gus
31. Harman, Jennifer
32. Hellmuth, Phil
33. Hershiser, Orel
34. Ivey, Phil
35. Juanda, John
36. Kaplan, Gabe
37. Laak, Phil
38. Lederer, Howard
39. Lindgren, Erick
40. Little, Jonathan
41. Matusow, Mike
42. Mizrachi, Michael
43. Negreanu, Daniel
44. Nguyen, Scotty
45. Pham, David
46. Raymer, Greg
47. Rousso, Vanessa
48. Schneider, Tom
49. Schreiber, Daniel
50. Seed, Huck
51. Seidel, Erik
52. Singer, David
53. Smith, Gavin
54. Tilly, Jennifer
55. Townsend, Brian
56. Tran, J.C.
57. Tran, Kenny
58. Wasicka, Paul
59. Williams, David
60. Yang, Jerry

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