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.
Tagged as: 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, Annie Duke, Erik Seidel, featured, Poker News
Where is Joanna Krupa in this picture?
We regret not making it to more of the
2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event. First class event, huge turn-out, and
Joanna Krupa was there. We’d blame all of this on visa issues, except we were within a 10 mile radius of the event. So we’ll blame it on cocaine.
While the Main Event itself had some big names go deep, the final table was a fairly friends and family affairTM.
Thomas Marchese took the title, making his first major tourney cash and banking $827,648. He defeated Sam Stein heads-up for the title.
“Miami” John Cernuto finished seventh.
Get a full rundown of the event here.
In semi-related news, the $25,000 NAPT High-Stakes Shoot-Out final table is Thursday at 2pm PST. At the table are Scott Seiver, Hoyt Corkins, Faraz Jaka, Joe Cassidy, Brett Richey, Peter Eastgate, and Ashton Griffin. Follow the action here.
Tagged as: featured, NAPT, NAPT Venetian Main Event, Tom Marchese
Apparently threats actually DO work. Nice.
The Entities who comprise Wicked Chops Poker want to thank you for voting us Top Poker Blog of 2009 in Bluff Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Awards.
Or maybe you just voted for Keeley Hazell. Either way, we all win, right?
While the threat of taking Keeley away clearly put us over the top, we do have to give a quick tip of the hat to the just as deserving Tao of Poker, Pokerati, and Poker News Daily, all of which we read every day.
To show our appreciation, below is a gallery of some of Keeley’s best work through the years. Relive when we first discovered Keeley here.
See the full list of winners here.
Tagged as: Bluff Magazine, featured, Keeley Hazell, Reader's Choice Awards, wicked chops poker
Once again, eff you Phil Ivey's wallet.
With a second place finish at the
2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in event,
Phil Ivey has inched past
Daniel Negreanu as poker’s all-time tournament money winner.
Ivey banked $600,000 in the event, giving him just shy of $13M in earnings. This puts him ahead of Negreanu by around math math math $413,000 or so.
Dan Shak, who for his sake we hope has finalized his divorce from Beth, won the tourney, banking $1,200,000. He finished fourth in the same event last year.
Get the full breakdown here.
In related Daniel Negreanu news, he’s doing well at the WPT Southern Poker Championship, which is currently on Day 2. He’ll need to finish math math math around 1st place to overtake Ivey again. Get full WPT chip counts here.
And in related Aussie Millions news, Day 1B of the Main Event has wrapped and a guy with a funny last name is the chip leader. Get Day 1B chip counts here.
Tagged as: 2010 Aussie Millions, Dan Shake, Daniel Negreanu, featured, Phil Ivey
Put a laptop on her lap and she could be writing this post...
Photos of
Liv Boeree from
MAXIM online just popped up online.
Awesomely, one of the photos from the shoot is of Liv on a toilet. Not sure if she’s aware, but we kind of have a thing for pics of chicks on the toilet. Maybe it’s because all most no all of the posts for WCP are written while on the toilet. Or because of some other reason.
The pics are accompanied by an interview where Liv reveals, among other things, that she’s milked a cow. [insert cheap joke about one of our nicknames being "the cow" here]
View thumbs of the shoot below or see them all (plus the interview) here.
Tagged as: featured, Liv Boeree, Maxim
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