# World Heads-Up Poker Championship

The World Heads-Up Poker Championship (WHUPC) was an annual elimination-format poker tournament of heads-up no limit Texas hold'em matches. The tournament was co-created by Late Night Poker's Nic Szeremeta, PokerInEurope's Jon Shoreman, and gaming journalist Rich Geller.
The event has run from 2001 to 2010 and was held in Europe. Entry was open to all. Its success led to America's creation of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
From 2001 to 2003, the event was held at the Concord Card Casino, Vienna, Austria. From 2004 to 2008, the event was held at the Grand Casino, Barcelona, Spain. In 2009 and 2010, the event was held at the Victoria Casino, London, England. The event did not return in 2011 and its website has not been updated since 2010.
The event was filmed each year for TV broadcast around the world. In 2010 the event was broadcast live via the Internet for the first time at PokerInEuropeLive.com with commentary provided by Mike Carlson, Pete Singleton, and Neil Channing.

## Results

| Year | Winner | Prize Money | Runner-Up | Semi-Finalists | Quarter-Finalists | Final 16 |
| 2001 | Bruno Fitoussi | S 1,068,033 | Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston | Vincent Oliver Asher Derei | Christoph Haller Nick Teti Casey Kastle Michael Keiner | Layne Flack Simon Trumper Billy Argyros Maurizio Biasini Dave Mosley Mike Rocco Nathan Wade |
| 2002 | Kirill Gerasimov | €60,000 | Roy Brindley | Tony G Mark Duran | Chris Bigler Mario Bentivedo Asher Derei | Barny Boatman Bruno Fitoussi Mel Judah Marcel Lüske Steven Au-Young Michel Leibgorin Vincent Oliver Siegfried Stockinger |
| 2003 | John Cernuto | €60,000 | Anthony Chapman | Ivo Donev Salah Alsayegh | Ram Vaswani Mickey Wernick Randy Holland Bob Coombes | Dave Colclough Barbara Enright Scotty Nguyen Padraig Parkinson Michael Frisby Christian Skjonstad Siegfried Stockinger Luzhe Zhang |
| 2004 | Angel Blanco Puras | €100,000 | Mark Banin | Juan Carlos Mortensen Dave Ulliott | John Cernuto Anders Rossander Rumit Somaiya Mats Törnros | Roy Brindley Bruno Fitoussi Rob Hollink Guosen Chen Raul Paez Corral Bo Estefan Enberg Erik Sagström Vladimir Troyanovsky |
| 2005 | Peter Gunnarson | €100,000 | Simon Nowab | Dave Colclough John Falconer | Pascal Perrault Peter Abela Andreas Hagen David Leigh | Jac Arama Simon Trumper Paul Jackson Jin Cai Lin Raul Paez Corral Stephen Pearce Frey Rutenskold Jamie Sharrat |
| 2006 | Isaac Mayolas de Vega | €125,000 | Paul Jackson | George Danzer Chen Tsai Feng | Robert Binelli Frank Bluemlein Nick Gibson Markus Golser | Juan Carlos Mortensen Ben Battle Thierry Cazals Thomas Fougeron Jan Heitmann Shannon Shorr Santiago Holguin Romero Santiago Terrazas |
| 2007 | Jeff Kimber | €125,000 | Dan Carter | Carlos Ilado Fabregas Mikko Lehtonen | Dave Ulliott Dan Simcelescu Oscar Blanco Carrasco Gilles Sanchez | Michael Keiner Don Fagan Peter Karall Jose Salazar Navas David Lacoste Haykel Vidal Harold Olsen Laurens Houtman |
| 2008 | Mauro Stivoli | €65,000 | Jonas Danielsson | Nicolas Dervaux Riccardo Bozicevich | Dan Carter Juan Sastre Durin Juan Maceiras Haykel Cgertf Vidal | Lopez Gonzalez, Iago Cayetano Garcia Ayala Harold Olson Erik Markus Friberg James Atkin Stefano Fiore Pier paolo Fabretti Dave Penly |
| 2009 | Bambos Xanthos | £65,000 | James Mitchell | Victor Ilyukhin Laurence Houghton | Thor Drexel Richard Gryko Tony Cascarino Dario Minieri | Jan Teilhof Robert Price Paul Zimbler Sorel Mizzi Bryan Pellegrino Steven Wilmot Keith Hawkins Albert Iversen |
| 2010 | Nik Persaud | £30,000 | Leon Louis | Toby Lewis Jeff Kimber | Victoria Coren Richard Gryko Marius Torbeggson | James Reid Nick Wealthall Basile Yaiche Jonathan Prested Tony Fayad Guillaume Delagorce |