2010 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship

$20,000 Heads-up Championship
Day: 2
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Event Info

2010 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
9♠9♥
Prize
$500,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$20,000
Prize Pool
$1,280,000
Entries
64

Someone Get Laak Some Flash Cards

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Not your English professor
Not your English professor
While Phil Laak and Jason Mercier are being moved from one of the outer tables to the secondary feature table, Phil Laak is looking for vocabulary help from companion Jen Tilly.

"What's that word that means hanging on?" Laak asked. "Temerity?"

"Tenacity," Tilly replied.

Laak seemed confused. "Tenacity? What's temerity then?"

"It's something like nerve," said Tilly.

"Temerity. That's a good word too. But I was thinking of tenacity. I'm always looking for a place to use that."

We'll see if Laak has the temerity to put Mercier all in any time soon, or whether Lack will need to find his tenacity to take the match to the limit.