Annie Duke History, profile, and background
he beautiful Annie Duke is one of the famous female poker players in the very male dominated world of Texas Hold'em poker. But she isn't merely one of the very best looking of all poker players--she deserves to be one of the famous poker players as she is, for Annie is a fierce competitor and a winner. Inspired by her card-playing family and encouraged by her professional poker playing, Full Tilt team member Howard Lederer, Annie Duke has been a professional poker player since she moved to Las Vegas at the age of 29 in 1994 with then-husband Ben Duke.
Annie Duke, who was born on September 13, 1965 in Concord, New Hampshire, has a good background for becoming a famous poker player: not only was everyone in her family driven to win at card games when she was growing up, she also has a degree in English and Psychology from Columbia University and some Master's level research in Cognitive Psychology under her belt. Deciding to marry her longtime friend Ben Duke in the middle of doing her Master's level work in 1991, she and he entered a life of romance-sustained poverty. Annie began playing poker games, with coaching and bankrolling from her brother "the Professor of Poker", in order to pay their mortgage! She got so good that in 1994, brother Howard convinced her to enter the World Series of Poker. After knocking her brother out of the competition, Annie wound up placing 13th, winning $70,000 in just one month. It was very shortly after that Ben and Annie packed up and left Billings, Montana for Las Vegas and the poker life. Annie Duke the poker player would be poor no more--not even romantically.
In the year 2000, 8 months pregnant with her third of what are now four children, Annie finished the Main Event of that year's WSOP in 10th place, just one spot shy of the final table. Fast forward to 2004 and you find Annie defeating 234 players while winning the $2000 Omaha buy-in Hi/Lo Split event, giving her her very first WSOP bracelet. Also in 2004, while playing the inaugural winner-take-all invitation only World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, Annie Duke took the first place prize of $2 million. Once again victimizing her poor brother, Annie also defeated Texas Hold'em masters Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson among five other poker greats to win that purse.
In 2005, she and Howard promoted some video poker games featuring themselves as electronic characters; and she and writer David Diamond published her best-selling book 'Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker'
These days, Annie is a consultant for UltimateBet.com and makes sure that online poker there makes you feel exactly like you're in one of the famous poker rooms of the Vegas strip. If you download Ultimate Bet and make a deposit of real money, you get to play against Annie Duke. But be warned: don't let her flirt with you, or you'll lose your shirt.
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