The tournament will begin at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday with the final two rounds taking place on Sunday, starting at 4 p.m. ET. With a $25,000 buy-in per player, Full Tilt Poker is touting the event as the largest heads-up tournament ever held either live or online.

Chris “Jesus” Ferguson will play host to the event, and several of Full Tilt Poker’s top pros are expected to participate. Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman and Gus Hansen will be in the mix of the up to 64 players allowed for the tournament.

The Heads-Up World Championship will feature a series of single-elimination, heads-up poker matches until a final champion is determined. Players can buy in directly with $25,000 in cash or with tournament dollars.

For players who don’t quite have the $25k to spare to play, Full Tilt Poker is also offering online qualifiers for the event. For $500+$35, players can take part in a heads-up qualifying tournament today at 3 p.m. ET or Friday at 9 p.m. ET to win their way into the Heads-Up World Championship.

Poker fans can also just log in to watch the action as some of their favorite players take on each other and the online players who dare to challenge them.

Full Tilt Poker will also give players the opportunity to watch key hands or matches they may have missed with post-event commentary and analysis by Ali Nejad and Ferguson.

Full Tilt Poker offers players the unique opportunity to learn, chat and play poker with some of the best poker pros in the game.

Along with Ferguson, Ivey, Lederer, Hansen and Harman, Team Full Tilt includes Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, John Juanda Mike Matusow and Allen Cunningham. Collectively, the team has won 32 World Series of Poker bracelets and banked millions in poker winnings.

Visit Full Tilt Poker to join in the poker fun and take advantage of all the special offers available to PokerListings players.

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The LAPT kicked off its inaugural tour just two weeks ago in the sunny city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, bringing players from all over the world to compete in a $2,500 buy-in Texas Holdoe’m tournament.

Now the tour has headed to the home of Humberto Brenes for the second leg, bringing with it online qualifiers once again as well as celebrities from around the world to take on the locals.

Along with Brenes, some of the stars competing in the LAPT from Team PokerStars include Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Andre Akkari and Victor Ramdin.

From the celebrity world, Montel Williams is taking a break from finding people’s daddies on his talk show to test his poker skills once again. Joining him are former professional baseball players Orel Hershiser and David Wells, The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon and Brazilian stock-car racer Gualter Salles.

Also among the 400 who’ve anted up their $2,500, 180 of whom qualified online at PokerStars, is Julien Nuijten, the winner of the Brazil leg of the LAPT. The 19-year-old player from Holland could be looking to remain the only champion on the tour rather than just the first.

There will be plenty of action to follow and updates on your favorite players right here at PokerListings during the three days of play at the Cariari Country Club in San Jose. Check out all the live action, photos, interviews and more in the Live Tournaments section.

For players looking to take in some poker action of their own, either online or to qualify for major live events, head to PokerStars.

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Sigh…

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I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so….

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