09-10-2007 14:48 UTC

Table Break at the Sportsman

[user46298]

SPORTSMAN -- This venue surely must win the action-packed prize for the early session: they've already broken a table and spread the occupants through the room. Annie Duke is grateful for the table change not because she was doing badly in her first seat, but because now she's on 51,000, having just eliminated Christoffer Johnson.

The board read {10-Hearts}

{10-Hearts}

{9-Clubs}

{10-Diamonds}

{4-Clubs}

and around 15k per player was in the middle, the cards on their backs.

Duke: {9-Hearts}

{9-Hearts}

{9-Diamonds}

Johnson:

{K-Clubs}

{10-Clubs}

They waited while a TV camera arrived, and Annie Duke said, "At least I can't go broke. The bad news is, he has outs." The river {7-Spades}

{7-Spades}

wasn't one of them, though, and Annie Duke cements her chip leader status, saying, "I cold decked him - no skill in that one."

Tags: Annie Duke Christoffer Johnson