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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This explains a lot, actually...
We’ve been wondering where
Erik Seidel got his awesome
twitter sense of humor, and now it makes sense: he has an awesome sense of humor.
Seidel appeared on last night’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Rumor is he bought a walk-on spot for charity. If so, that means he’s a fan of the show, which means he’s got a Wicked Chops-esque sense of humor.
Read more about it on 2+2 here.
Tagged as: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Erik Seidel
If you were wearing a crooked visor in 1988, then yeah, you probably have a good sense of humor.
Twitter is tough. Like, we’re funny as shit in blog format, but
it took us awhile to find our tweeting legs.
One person not struggling to be funny on Twitter, however, is Erik Seidel.
Seidel could easily piece together a rapid-joke-firing stand-up routine from his tweets. Consider these gems:
Nothing like that feeling after an intense workout…so I’m told.
Obama got so much TV coverage this weekend, I thought he was dating a Kardashian.
Once the baby started to grow hair, the gig was up for John Edwards.
My wife thinks I’m lazy, she’s trying to get me out of bed. She doesn’t want to recognize the extra effort to reduce my carbon footprint.
Senate votes to allow guns to be transported on Amtrak trains. I’m betting this is going to improve on time performance.
Wow MacKenzie Phillips’ dad was so effed up, thought she was talking about Steve Zolotow for a minute.*
He’s like Jay Leno if Jay Leno was actually funny.
Read more Seidelisms here.
Also, for the record, we may have RawVegas.tv attend an open mic night and just do Seidel tweets for material, film it, and see how it goes. Erik, you get first shot at your material, but if you’re not down, we’ll have someone do it for you.
* Ok we made up that Zolotow joke. Still funny though. Kinda looks like him.
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Jessica Gomes (above), a model from Australia who has appeared in the SI Swimsuit Issue, is of no relation to Alex Gomes, who won the WPT Bellagio Cup V.
It’s going to be an interesting year for the
World Poker Tour, we think.
With The EconomyTM still taking it’s toll and the 2009 WSOP depleting everyone’s bankroll, there’s a decent chance you’ll see registration across the board continue to slide for WPT events.
The Bellagio Cup V concluded yesterday, with Alex Gomes winning his first WPT title and banking $1,187,670. Still another new WPT millionaire, but those top prizes are dwindling. Gomes, who won a WSOP bracelet last year, is a Team Poker Stars pro from Brazil.
In second was Faraz ‘The-Toilet’ Jaka with $774,780. Erik Seidel, who dubbed this the “toughest final table” in WPT history, finished sixth for $164,640.
Get full payouts and recaps at the WPT site here.
Tagged as: Alex Gomes, Erik Seidel, Poker News, World Poker Tour
Faraz 'The-Toilet' Jaka (not pictured above) is looking to dump the rest of the final table and claim his first WPT title today.
Faraz ‘The-Toilet’ Jaka continued his dominance yesterday of the
WPT Bellagio Cup V, increasing his chip lead as they played down to the TV final table.
Jaka, whose name we still wouldn’t want to see on a airline passenger manifesto, is stacked at 5,041,000. He’s followed by Justin ‘Boosted J’ Smith, who has continued his good run from the WSOP, with 2,992,000.
The rest of the final table is filled out by Alec Torelli (2,623,000), Erik Seidel (2,170,000), Christopher Sonesson (1,671,000), and Alexandre Gomes (1,586,000).
Interestingly or not interesting at all depending on how much you care about these types of things, Erik Seidel said in this interview that he thinks this is “the toughest final table the WPT’s ever had.” This one and this one might beg to differ, but whatever.
Follow the final table action online starting at 4 p.m. PT here.
* Uh oh. We’re going there. Let’s hope he doesn’t “stink up” the joint at the final table.
Tagged as: Erik Seidel, Faraz Jaka, Poker News, World Poker Tour
Miranda Kerr's new Victoria's Secret photos have little to nothing to do with poker, which means they have something in common with our brains after six-plus weeks at the WSOP.
We ain’t gonna lie, we’re nowhere near the Bellagio right now, and after a month and a half of covering the
2009 WSOP, we’re beat. But we’ll feign at least some interest in the
WPT Bellagio Cup V, which is going on right now and drew a ridiculously low, Season 6 Tunica-like 268 players.
And by feign interest we mean copy and paste the current chipleaders from the WPT site. There are ten remaining. They play down to the TV final table, which takes place tomorrow. Faraz Jaka, who we’ll add to the list of names we wouldn’t want to see on an airline passenger manifesto (new WCP club in the works?), has had the chip lead the past couple days.
Here they are: Faraz Jaka (3,299,000), Justin Smith (2,620,000), Alec Torelli (1,919,000), Erik Seidel (1,799,000), Alexandre Gomes (1,713,000), Ray Taylor (1,085,000), Christopher Sonesson (786,000), Mimi Tran (690,000), Sam Stein (666,000), Pavel Reshetov (507,000).
Follow the action at the Bellagio Cup VI here. View more of Miranda Kerr’s new Victoria’s Secret photos here.
Tagged as: Bellagio Cup, Erik Seidel, Faraz Jaka, Miranda Kerr, Poker News, World Poker Tour
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