Annie Duke The Duchess of Poker

Annie Duke was created in Concord, New Hampshire. Her brother Howard Lederer can be another professional poker player; her sister Katy Lederer is definitely an author and poet.

Annie went to Columbia University where she double majored in English and psychology. Annie Duke was awarded a NSF Fellowship to visit graduate school with the University of Pennsylvania to study cognitive psychology, specifically psycholinguistics. Her intention ended up being become a professor but she left school in 1992, after five years of graduate school and something month before defending her Ph.D. work. She left academia to pursue family life together with her husband, Ben Duke, and gone after Columbus, Montana.

While residing in Montana, Annie Duke began playing poker within the legal card rooms in Billings. Her brother Howard is an expert and the man both coached and helped finance her play. In 1994, she and her husband transferred to Las Vegas so she could begin to play poker full-time. Just before 2004, her main claim that they can poker fame was her 10th place finish in the 2000 World Series of Poker main event (one position lacking the last table) while eight months pregnant along with her third child.

During the early 2004, Annie Duke received considerable publicity because she tutored actor Film clip, who then took to win the 2004 California State Poker Championship. In September 2004 Duke won $2,000,000 within the inaugural Wsop Tournament of Champions, a 10-player, winner-take-all invitational event. She subsequently appeared for the Late Show with David Letterman.

As of 2006, Annie Duke has won one Wsop bracelet, in Omaha HiLo and over $3.One million in tournament play. Nowadays she will not play in women's only tournaments, saying that "Poker is amongst the few sports where a woman can compete on the totally equal footing which has a man, and so i don't understand why there is a ladies only tournament." Annie Duke is one of many poker players that take downside to the restrictions positioned on players during televised tournaments. Even though players pay mandatory entry fees to penetrate tournaments, some venues don't let players to wear sponsorship logos. Duke raised some controversy when she made a statement in the news article in regards to this issue: "We [poker players] aren't even slaves. We're people paying to pick the cotton."

Within the 2004 World Series of Poker she eliminated her brother Howard Lederer from four separate events, such as aforementioned Tournament of Champions. Unlike her brother, Duke is acknowledged for being somewhat emotional in the chat box. At the time of 2007, her total live tournament winnings exceed $3,200,000. Annie Duke is a spokesperson for Ultimate Bet since 2000 and possesses written many articles for your poker online website, mainly on Omaha HiLo. She has several nicknames including "Annie Legend", "The Duke", and "The Duchess of Poker". Her sister, Katy Lederer, wrote a book regarding the Lederer family, titled Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. She even offers her own biography, called Anne Duke profile: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions with the World Series of Poker.