It doesn't appear that anyone in this crowd is rooting for one player over another. Instead, they seem to be rooting equally for both Annie Duke and Erik Seidel.
2010 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship
$20,000 Heads-up Championship
Day: 3
It doesn't appear that anyone in this crowd is rooting for one player over another. Instead, they seem to be rooting equally for both Annie Duke and Erik Seidel.
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The audience members sprang to their feet and rushed the stage to watch the dealer produce a flop of of . Duke was still in the lead with king-high but Seidel had an up-and-down straight draw. That draw filled when the turn came , but Duke picked up a draw of her own to a flush. She needed a heart to continue Match No. 2, but the river fell . Seidel has knotted the finals at one match apiece.
Duke then out-flopped Seidel when the board came , giving her a pair and putting her in the lead. The on the turn gave her two pair and the meaningless on the river gave her the pot and a crucial double up.
On the river Duke checked, leading Seidel to make a big bet. Duke held her head in her hands and tanked for more than a minute before calling. Seidel showed for trip deuces to take down the pot.
Duke now has less than 100,000 chips.
From what we can tell, Seidel has won the majority of the hands as his chip lead looks to have increased significantly over a now short-stacked Duke.
Both players checked the on the river and Seidel showed to take the pot. Annie said she was open-ended on the turn after mucking her hand.