2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

$20,000 Heads-Up Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

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

"The Professor" Dodges a Bullet

"The Professor"
"The Professor"
In his match against Barry Greenstein, Howard Lederer moved all of his chips into the middle on the strength of A-K offsuit and was called by Greenstein who showed . . . A-K offsuit.

More often than not, this match-up results in a chopped pot, but every now and then one player makes four to a flush to steal the hand, which is almost what happened here on table seven, as the flop brought three diamonds with Greenstein holding the {K-Diamonds}.

Needing to dodge nine outs twice to stay alive, "The Professor" sat calmly in his chair as the board filled out {2-Spades}, {5-Spades} - both safe cards for Lederer - and the match continued.

Tags: Barry GreensteinHoward Lederer