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Annie Duke turned the tide against Erik Seidel by winning a few small pots and also showing down a flush on the river and a straight on the river to win medium-sized pots. Those chips propelled her to a 3-to-1 chip advantage.
With blinds increasing, the two players got all in on a flop of . Duke had flopped top pair, , and was looking to fade Seidel's flush draw, . Neither the turn nor the river were spades, allowing an exuberant Duke to take a 1-0 lead in this best-of-three match.
We'll now reset the chip stacks to 640,000 each and rewind the blinds to the starting 3,000-6,000. Cards will be in the air in just a few minutes.