Do you live in the United States? Excellent – that’s the only qualification you need to play in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship! You’ll need a PokerStars account of course, but otherwise that’s it, and it takes just a few minutes to download the free software.

Billed as the ultimate test of one-on-one poker skills, the National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an exclusive 64-seat tournament where each round you play heads-up against one other opponent - the winner advances to the next round, the loser, well, they face the long walk home.

It also happens to be one of TV’s highest rated poker shows thanks to its strict invitation only playing cast and Las Vegas location, the perfect place to play poker and you can secure a seat there yourself on PokerStars.

So, think this is your kind of tournament? Do you want to look down at your cards then across to the table at the likes of Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem, Vanessa Rousso and Greg Raymer? Then check the PokerStars.net lobby for free to enter qualifying tournaments held each day until Saturday, February 22.

Daily Round 1 Events:

Round 1A – Every day at 7:00 PM ET
Round 1B – Every day at 10:00 PM ET

If you’re new to PokerStars or have been playing for some time, you can enter one Round 1A and one Round 1B event for your chance to play in Vegas. It’s all free and stands as a pretty good prize...

Grand Prize:
• $20,000 buy-in to the exclusive 64-player Heads-Up Championship
• 4 nights’ accommodation in Las Vegas (February 28 – March 2)
• $1,000 cash for travel

All that’s left to say is good luck and to remind you that should you win you might have to clear it with the boss for some time off between February 28 and March 2. Hopefully they’ll understand...

For more information on how to play and what you could win, click here

Free tournaments run every day at 7:00 and 10:00 PM ET and can be located in the PokerStars game lobby by clicking the "Tourney" and then "Freeroll" tabs and scrolling to find the next tournament named "Heads-Up Qualifying – Round 1A (U.S. players)" or "Heads-Up Qualifying – Round 1B (U.S. players)".