Can This Be The End?
Monday, July 6, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
The World Series of Poker lasts nearly seven weeks, to the point where you think it’ll never end. But when the Main Event rolls around that means your Series can conclude with the cruel turn of a card. It sneaks up on you, the end can come so quickly that it takes some time to comprehend that it’s Over. There’s no new tournament tomorrow, no more opportunities to win a bracelet. Your World Series is done.
That’s the fate that befell Annie Duke, who was eliminated before the dinner break on Day 1C. Annie twittered that she’d woken up with a cold and a sore throat and hoped to gut it out today so she’d have two days to recover before her Day 2. But it wasn’t meant to be. She lost two big hands early on (both to players who held K-6 against her) and then lost the last of her chips when her Ace-King lost a race to pocket nines. And that was that, Annie’s Main Event and Series came to an end.
Annie cashed twice at this year’s World Series (she’s now cashed in 35 WSOP events, which is the same number as Phil Ivey and one more than Doyle Brunson) and made the final table at the $10,000 Omaha/8 World Championship. And she also helmed yet another massive Ante Up for Africa charity tournament. So there’s a lot of success to point to…though that probably comes as small consolation the night you’re eliminated from the Main Event.
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