title: Heads-Up Tournament Poker: Hand-by-Hand
author:  Annie Duke 
description: Annie Duke won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet, the $2 million top prize in the WSOP&rsquo;s Tournament of Champions, and, in 2010, the NBC Heads-Up Championship, taking home the $500,000 winner&rsquo;s purse. As an industry advocate and proponent of online poker, she has appeared as an expert witness before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary and Financial Services committees. She also gained international recognition through her appearance on NBC&rsquo;s Celebrity Apprentice in 2009, finishing as runner-up to Joan Rivers. She is the author of two other books, Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, and Decide to Play Great Poker. Learn more about Annie at her website, www.AnnieDuke.com, or follow her on Twitter @AnnieDuke. Vanessa Rousso, one of the most visible women in poker, has won more than $3 million in poker tournaments, including more than $1 million at the &euro;25,000 buy-in High Roller event of the PokerStars EPT in Monte Carlo, and more than $700,000 in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event, both in 2009. She also finished second to Huck Seed in the 2009 NBC Heads-Up Championship, winning $250,000. Learn more about Vanessa at her website, www.VanessaRousso.com, or follow her on Twitter @VanessaRousso. Josh Doody has extensively studied poker theory and has been a winning recreational player for 10 years, focusing primarily on no-limit hold&lsquo;em tournaments. Learn more about Josh at his website, www.JoshDoody.com, or follow him on Twitter @JoshDoody on Twitter.
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  # Pocket Queens
  
  
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  # Pocket Queens
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Constance Duke is a professional Texas Hold’em player. She’s sharp and stoic,
  with a steely poker face and a drive to win. The regulars at her local poker
  room fear her, and the casuals underestimate her at their own peril. Constance
  is happy making a good living playing poker on her terms. And then she meets
  Mina Frye._
  
  
  _Mina is a gifted pickpocket, cunning and conniving, and equally charming and
  beautiful. At first, Mina sees Constance as just another mark. But she quickly
  realizes that Constance has much greater potential, and as the two begin to
  fall for one another, Mina convinces her that Las Vegas and the Poker World
  Championship are calling Constance’s name._
  
  
  _As Constance competes with the world’s best poker players, moving her way up
  in the tournament, she must also navigate the secrets of Mina’s checker