Annie Duke on Memorable WSOP Main Event Moments



Poker News Daily: The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will begin airing this week on ESPN. You’ve had a lot of success in the $10,000 buy-in tournament. What are some of your favorite moments? Duke: I have probably three favorite WSOP Main Event moments. The first one was the very first Main Event I played in, where I got down to three tables. It was incredible. People come in, play for the first time, and they’re nervous. Most poker fans think that the pros have never felt the same way, but we do. I had been playing for a year at that point, came to WSOP, and did well. I won two seats into the Main Event from satellites. I knocked my brother out on the first day with A-A versus A-K. This was in 1994 and the WSOP Main Event took exactly four days. I was pretty high in chips and was in the top 30 going into Day 2. I woke up and was dry heaving in the sink because of nerves; I was freaking out. ESPN did coverage of the Main Event and they took me aside for an interview, which really freaked me out because I was ...

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