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Vanessa Kade defeated Alex O’Brien this weekend in one of the most-talked about heads-up matches for a while, scooping a $10,000 prize for charity in a match put on by America’s CardRoom after Dan Bilzerian welched on a showdown with O’Brien on GGPoker. �Vanessa Kade Defeats Alex O’Brien To Win The Round 3, $10K Heads Up Charity Match #ACR pic.twitter.com/fATxPC30cF — Americas Cardroom (@ACR_POKER) January 30, 2022 O’Brien, a science writer and poker amateur, had won the $100k Bilzerian Birthday promotional freeroll tournament on GGPoker to celebrate their most infamous ambassador’s birthday.
That should have resulted in the Londoner facing off heads-up with the controversial King of Instagram , but the well-known misogynist refused to live up to his end of the deal.
Although GGPoker tried to placate O’Brien by paying her into the Online WSOP Heads-up bracelet event, as O’Brien stated: “…it wasn’t the match-up I wanted, nor the one I’d been promised.”
ACR stepped up to the plate amid the controversy and offered O’Brien a shot against any of their ACR team pros, and she naturally chose someone who had also been a victim of Bilzerian’s chauvinistic childishness, Vanessa Kade.
The Canadian pro took down a monster $1,514,920 payday for winning the Sunday Million 15th Anniversary on PokerStars , just days after Bilzerian had dissed her on Twitter with an infamous typo tweet .
The ACR match between Kade and O’Brien would see the winner walk off with $10k to give to the charity, or charities, of their choice, and Kade was the huge favourite.
Fans of the duelling duo were able to follow the online match-up on ACR’s TwitchTV livestream , with Team pros Drew Gonzalez and Jon Pardy in the commentary booth.
The battle was set for a best of three heads-up duel, a little trouble setting up the tables eventually resolved with both women starting out with 175BBs.The deep stacks didn’t last long in the turbo SNG-style game, and although O’Brien pulled out to an early chip lead, Kade pulled it back and finished off game one by winning the following race…Vanessa “Niffler” Kade: 10♦ […]
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