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Poker pro Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson has been appearing a lot on the Beat recently and he is the pundit's favorite for the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. (Bodog Beat Image)

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship takes place this weekend at Caesar's Palace and will feature 64 of the best heads-up poker players in the world going face to face in the hopes of capturing the $500,000 first-place prize.

Over at ESPN.com, Andrew Feldman (ESPN.com Poker Editor) got together some of the best known poker pundits out there – ESPN.com columnists Gary Wise and Bernard Lee, Lance Bradley (Bluff Magazine), Paul McGuire (Tao of Poker), Chops Preiss (Wicked Chops Poker) and Dan Michalski (Pokerati) – to rank the field for their own March Madness-style bracketology.

So, head over to ESPN.com and check out the full National Heads-Up Poker Championship rankings and come back here for more updates on the heads-up poker competition.

Here are the top ten players as voted on by the above participants:

1. Chris Ferguson
2. Phil Ivey
3. Ted Forrest
4. Andy Bloch
5. Allen Cunningham
6. Phil Hellmuth
7. Kenny Tran
8. Tom Dwan
9. Daniel Negreanu
10. Barry Greenstein