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Huck Seed has long been considered one of the better heads-up No Limit Hold’em players playing today. In 2008 he took home the Canadian Open Poker Championships, a heads-up tournament similar in structure to the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Now he has that title as on his resume as well.

Seed swept Vanessa Rousso in the finals Sunday night in Las Vegas to win the $500,000 first place prize and win a title he’s been close to on a number of occasions. In 2005, the first year of the event, Seed finished 9th. He followed that up in 2006 with a 3rd place finish. He finished 9th again in 2007 before getting close to the finals again last year with another 3rd place finish.

In the first match of the best-of-three finals Seed had Rousso down by nearly 200,000 when he called her pre-flop all-in. Rousso showed Q-J and found her hand dominated by Seed’s K-J. The board bricked out for both players giving Seed a 1-0 lead.

The next match followed a similar pattern and took just under an hour to complete. With the board showing K-8-3-T Rousso moved all-in and Seed called. The newest Go Daddy Girl tabled J-T and Seed showed K-7.

Rousso, fresh off of filming a set of commercials for tournament sponsor Go Daddy, walked away with $250,000 for second place. That pushes her live tournament earnings to over $1,000,000.

Results 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship:

1. Huck Seed - $500,000
2. Vanessa Rousso - $250,000
3. Sam Farha - $125 000
4. Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier - $125,000
5. Daniel Negreanu - $75,000
6. Phil Hellmuth - $75,000
7. David Oppenheim - $75,000
8. David Williams - $75,000
9. John Juanda - $25,000
10. Paul Wasicka - $25,000
11. Scotty Nguyen - $25,000
12. Tom 'durrrr' Dwan - $25,000
13. Kenny Tran - $25,000
14. Erick Lindgren - $25,000
15. John Phan - $25,000
16. Glen Chorny - $25,000