Watch Annie Duke Wins 2010 Heads Up Poker Championship on RawVegas.tv
Watch the above vid for her middle fingerless remarks.
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2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Annie Duke probably looked something like this when she defeated Erik Seidel for the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Annie Duke, a woman, has won the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
The woman Duke defeated long-time friend Erik Seidel 2-1 for the title. She banks $500,000 for the win, boosting her career tourney earnings to over $2.1M. That number of course doesn’t include the $2M she took home for winning another made-for-TV event, the initial WSOP Tournament of Champions back in 2004.
For a recap of the match, go here.
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Doyle Brunson will have everyone pulling for him in the Elite 8.
For most, the biggest shocker is probably Jerry Yang. Given he has exactly one cash since winning the 2007 WSOP Main Event–and that was in 2007–nobody had Yang advancing far in their brackets. Good for him though, as now he’ll earn an automatic invite back next year and won’t have to put the NBC HU officials in the weird spot of making him the first Main Event winner in the modern era without an invite.
For us though, the biggest Elite 8 shocker is Doyle Brunson. Texas Dolly wasn’t even going to play this tournament, but he keeps grinding away, and now would actually have to be considered among the favorites.
Here are the matches for Sunday:
Dennis Phillips vs. Doyle Brunson
Jerry Yang vs. Annie Duke
Jason Mercier vs. Scotty Nguyen
Peter Eastgate vs. Erik Seidel
UPDATE: Play starts at 11am PST. A few additional thoughts: 1) We’re pulling for The Shadow. Yep. The Shadow. We said it. One-time for “One…Mirron!” 2) We’ve been saying for awhile that there hasn’t been a break-out star for years in poker. The five or so biggest names before the boom (Negreanu, Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, Doyle, Ferguson, Duke, Moneymaker, etc.) are still the biggest names to the more mass poker audience. Could Jason Mercier make “the leap” by winning the event? Player of the Year…young guy…pretty good TV persona…meh, maybe. 3) While having two former WSOP ME champs on one hand is good…if the final is between Eastgate and Yang, what kind of a ratings would that pull? Would it make Face the Ace look like American Idol? 4) If the final comes down to Doyle and Seidel, and they end up tied after two matches, can the third match be determined by tweet-off?
UPDATE II: Seidel vs. Nguyen, Phillips vs. Duke in semis.
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Unfortunately for us and Doyle, we won't be seeing any more of Kara Scott at the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Not sure what’s up with this, but neither last year’s Official Pick to Win ItTM, Huck Seed, or this year’s OPTWI, Howard Lederer, will win the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Defending champ Seed will NOT cash for the first time ever in the event, getting knocked out by Erik Seidel, who had never won a NBCHU match in five years. Lederer was defeated by Phil Hellmuth.
Some of the bigger surprises in Round 1 included: Don Cheadle def. J.P. Kelly, Phil Gordon def. Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Chris Moneymaker def. Patrik Antonius, Jerry Yang def. Mike Matusow, and Doyle Brunson def. Brock Parker.
Go below the fold to see full Round 2 match-ups. Some highlights include: Phil Hellmuth vs. Annette Obrestad, Phil Ivey vs. Scotty Nguyen, Erick Lindgren vs. Peter Eastgate, and for some reason Darvin Moon vs. Annie Duke.
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Not sure what happened, but the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship seems to have lost some of its luster this year.
The easy explanation as to why would be the invite list. With so many online qualifiers and random pros, there just wasn’t the same buzz or excitement this year compared to the past three years we’ve covered it. In fact, RawVegas.tv was the only so-called “media” outlet actually doing vid interviews.
So some quick suggestions to fix this moving forward: 1) Invite more celebs. This is a made-for-TV event, so get more TV personalities there. And stop regurgitating the same people. More celebs play poker than just Don Cheadle and Orel Hershiser. 2) Invite more high-stakes online guys. Playing heads-up for lots of money is what guys like Luke Schwartz, Ziigmund, and Brian Townsend do. They’ll mix up the action and create better, more exciting match-ups. Which means… 3) Less online qualifiers. Seriously who cares.
That’s it. Pretty simple.
Some interview highlights from above and after the jump: Joe Cada discussing how many girls he’s slept with since winning the WSOP Main Event (kid handles himself well…), Vanessa Rousso explaining Chad Brown‘s non-inclusion to the field this year (he won this event three years ago and isn’t invited this year…but Greg Raymer still gets in???), Jennifer Tilly talks about showing cleave, and Don Cheadle gives his Oscar picks.
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