The 2010 PokerStars Spring Championships of Online Poker is drawing to a close, with the remaining Main Event contenders currently preparing for the start of Day 2. As the grand finale was getting underway, the last few one-on-one battles of Event #35 were being played out. The two-day heads up tournament featured some of the toughest pros and amateurs across all three buy-in levels, with top class players pitting their skills against each other in a knockout format. Traditionally, playing heads up is reserved for the final few hands of a big multi-table tournament, but fully fledged heads up events have become more and more popular. None less so than the yearly NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which boasts Chris Ferguson and Huck Seed as former winners. The Low portion of this No Limit Hold ‘em contest was a $250 + $20 affair, with $250,000 guaranteed by PokerStars. The popularity of heads-up tournaments was evidenced by the 2048 people who signed on to compete, obliterating the guarantee to build a prize pool of $380,500. Anyone who wanted to take home the largest chunk of that money would have to win a total of 11 heads-up contests. After two days of hard slog, the overall winner would be either drecster or roo_400. Following an hour of back and forth play, drecster moved all-in for the final time and roo_400 made the call. The cards were on their backs before the flop, decster showing Ks-9h against roo_400’s Ac-3d. The board ran out Td-7s-2s-4s-4h, meaning that Ace High was enough for roo_400 to take home the Event #35 Low title and $64,685 in prize money. This was a big money contest, as demonstrated by the buy-in for the Mid section of Event #35, which stood at a total of $2000 + $100. Luckily, there was the small matter of a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool to attract potential players. Once again, the promise of big payouts and the