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Missing in action

By Gary Wise
ESPN.com

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Editor's note: Ivan Demidov's spot in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship has been given to Hevad Khan as Demidov is unable to attend. I love the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. There. I said it. This weekend, the poker world converges upon and revisits one of my favorite events of the year. The NHUPC hardly qualifies as sport, given the shallow blind structure and the inequity involved in the selection process (much more on this in a moment) and it's certainly not a championship b ...

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