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Poker pro James Mackey is one of the final four players left in the LA Poker Classic Heads-Up Match. (Bodog Beat Image)

After the exciting finale to the HORSE event, the LA Poker Classic has served up another high buy-in, high profile tournament, the $10,000 Heads-Up event. The tournament drew out a lot of well-known and popular players – 111 in all – and, no, we have no idea how one formats a heads-up poker tournament with an odd number of people but what do we know.

Anyway, the tournament is now down to its final four participants and those match-ups will be David Oppenheim vs. Chris Moore and Evan Roberts vs. James Mackey. If you know anything about how brackets work, then you understand that the winners of these two matches will face each other in the championship. On the line is the $350,000 first-place prize with second receiving $190,000. The losers will play for the $100,000 and $75,000 third and fourth-place prizes, respectively.

Speaking of losers, the losers bracket is also still going on with eight players remaining. Here are those matches:

Vivek Rajkumar vs. Ryan Hughes
Steve Sung vs. John Racener
Amit Makhija vs. David Paredes
Owen Crowe vs. Steve Billirakis

The winners play today at 3pm PT (6pm ET) and the losers face off today as well. However, the winner of the losers bracket will get to play the winner of the winner's bracket for the whole tournament, but since this is a double elimination event the winning loser will have to beat the wining winner twice in order to take down the event. If you understood that, congratulations, your brain is not suffering from Friday-itis like ours.

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