2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

$20,000 Heads-up Championship
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k7
Prize
$500,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$20,000
Entries
64

Seed Outlasts Farha; Will Face Rousso in Final

Sam Farha - eliminated
Sam Farha - eliminated
It took two-and-a-half hours, but we finally have a winner in the "red" side semifinal. Sam Farha moved all in as the short stack with {A-Clubs} {k-Diamonds}. Huck Seed called with {8-Clubs} {10-Clubs}, 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, {7-Clubs} {5-Spades} {J-Spades}, then turned a flush draw ({3-Clubs}) 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 {9-Clubs} 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.

Tags: Huck SeedSam FarhaVanessa Rousso