Annie Duke wins National Heads-up Poker Championship

Annie Duke showed the world that she is one of the greatest poker players in the world by winning the National Heads-Up Championship this weekend outlasting 63 other contestants.

The National Heads-Up Championship is to poker as NCAA college tournament is to basketball. Sixty-four players took part vied for the prestige of the being the champion.

It was Huck Seed versus Vanessa Rousso in the final match last year and Seed emerged as the winner. This year, Duke went heads-up with Eric Seidel, another good player she calls friend whom she defeated.

Duke said in an interview by ESPN that Seidel is a long-time friend and if she lost to him, she would have been equally happy.

This is Seidel’s sixth year in the tournament. He was eliminated during the first round in the last five years he was in the game. But Seidel is now considered one of top ten players by his peers.

The broadcast of the National Heads-Up Championship will be shown on NBC starting on April 18.