, Vanessa Rousso bet 100,000 chips. Shortly thereafter, Huck Seed became the first player to move all in during this match. Rousso gave the matter about thirty seconds of thought before mucking her hand. Seed now has the chip lead.
2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
$20,000 Heads-up Championship
Day: 3
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2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
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, Vanessa Rousso bet 100,000 chips. Shortly thereafter, Huck Seed became the first player to move all in during this match. Rousso gave the matter about thirty seconds of thought before mucking her hand. Seed now has the chip lead.
Blinds have increased to 10,000 and 20,000. MOC Jordan Siegel hasn't called any of the action yet; from our vantage it's hard to tell who has the chip lead.
This final is a two-out-of-three format. Each player has been given 640,000 chips. Blind levels start at 5,000 and 10,000 and will be fifteen minutes long.
. Huck Seed called with 
, which might seem like a loose call until the blinds of 20,000 and 40,000 and the average stack of 320,000 is factored into the equation. Seed flopped a gutshot straight draw, 
, then turned a flush draw (
) to go with it. We've had lots of dramatic turn cards in this match. It was inevitable that one of the draws produced by those turn cards would finally fill. Fill it did, as the river came 
to give Seed a club flush and the win.Seed will advance to the best-of-three final, where he will face the player who has become the story of the tournament, Vanessa Rousso.
a slight favorite to Seed's 
. Seed paired his seven on a flop of 
, but Farha picked up additional outs by drawing at a gutterball straight around a six. The 
on the turn turned those outs into "chop" outs; Farha could only win with a four on the river. The river fell 
, putting a straight on the board to the disbelieving gasp of everyone in the room. The pot was chopped up, and so the match continues.
. Sam Farha called with 
and the chip lead. Things got very interesting on the turn (again!) of a 
board. Seed made two pair, kings and sevens, but Farha was the one with two different draws. He missed them both when the river fell , giving Seed another double-up. He might have the chip lead at this point.
Huck Seed open-shoved his button with
when he had the chip lead. "I call," said Sam Farha. Farha turned over 
. In a repeat of an earlier hand, the 
helped neither player, but the turn was the perfect sweat card. It gave Farha top pair and the smallest possible flush draw to Seed. The river blanked out to give Farha the pot and the lead.The next hand, Farha raised and Seed called all in without looking at his hand. Farha had
against Seed's . Seed managed to pair his four on the flop and duck any damaging cards thereafter. He doubled up but remains at a chip disadvantage to Farha.
Seed moved all in from the button before the flop for a total of 159,000. Farha flashed the
then took a look at his stack before making the call:Seed:
Farha:
"We need an ace!" shouted one railbird.
"How bout a queen for Huckleberry!" replied another.
The flop came a boring
, but the 
that fell on the turn changed all that, as it gave Farha a plethora of new outs. No matter, Seed's queens held up in the end when the board paired (), doubling him through to 318,000 in chips. Farha was left with 322,000.
, a hand that had Seed's 
crushed. The board ran out 
to give Farha the double up, to the delight of the seemingly partisan crowd.Farha now has an approximately three-to-one chip lead.
