A man calls his wife at work and tells her "honey... I have some bad news. We just won the 3 million dollar state lottery." and the wife replies "Bad news? How is that bad news! We can finally live out our dreams!" to which the man responds "The payout is 3 dollars a year for a million years." The Heads-Up Championship, which was the first open-event of the 2011 WSOP, drew 128 players to create a prizepool of $3.04 million with $851k dedicated to first place. It’s the most cash ever generated by a heads-up tournament. Technically the event had half as many players as last year’s heads-up championship but because the buy-in was increased from $10k to $25k it was a much larger prizepool.  It was anyone’s guess who would show up for the event, thanks to online poker’s Black Friday in April, but the majority of the big names were there with Daniel Negreanu, Erik Seidel, Tom Dwan, Erick Lindgren, Vanessa Rousso and Patrik Antonius all patched up in either PokerStars or Full Tilt... holdem poker online