My Greatest WSOP Moment
Posted: 2008-06-03 17:03:23By: Annie Duke
My Best WSOP Moment
As a poker player you can gauge success many different ways, titles money, sponsorships and so on. This is of course the natural progression of success. It does of course come with many highs (and lows for that matter). For me my biggest high was winning my first WSOP bracelet in 2004. It was an Omaha hi/lo event.
I had a lot of success in the cash games at that time, but the knock on me in tournament play was that I couldn't close. I had a lot of seconds, some from bad beats, bad play, and some from neither. I felt a lot of pressure to win.
I got to the final table 6th in chips and went on a tear of cards getting heads up with a 4 to 1 chip lead. Not only was I able to close the deal this time, but right as the last hand was dealt my brother Howard walked in to watch. It was an amazing feeling to win as I then jumped up and gave him a huge hug. I hugged him so hard I put his back out! To make that win even sweeter I at one point was down to one 25 chip on day one!
The $2k Omaha event was running the same time as the ladies event, but I chose to play the open event instead. Only 3 ladies played in the Omaha event. I really felt that put an exclamation point on why woman should play in open events and not ladies only events!
I did of course go onto win the WSOP Tournament of Champions later that year, but the first one is always the sweetest.
As the WSOP is ramping up, I get goose bumps about the possibilities of reliving that feeling again.
