Annie Duke
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Annie Duke started playing poker with her father and her brother at home. They taught her to never relent and they taught her amazing skills that she transformed into her winning game today. Annie is a very talented and very educated woman. She found herself at Columbia University where she got a double major in English and Psychology. She was in the Ivy League.
Duke learned her poker mainly from her brother, Howard Lederer, also a professional poker player and would often play poker to keep the family above the poverty line. Before leaving her studies in 2002, Duke, (often called “the Duchess of Poker” or “The Duke” by fans) married a fellow student of the University of Pennsylvania and moved to his home in Columbus. Annie and her husband moved to Las Vegas back in 1994 and although they split later in the year, Duke has not looked back since. In her very first, but not last, World Series of Poker, Annie took home to her family a massive $70,000.
She continued to rock the poker world and become not just a great woman poker player, but a great poker player full stop. Many people doubted a woman could play poker like a man could, but she proved them all wrong by very nearly getting to the final table in the 2000 World series of Poker event.
She won the largest amount to be awarded to a woman poker player in 2004 taking home $2 million. She beat 9 other players to win that prize, one of which included her brother Howard Lederer. This was also the year she won her first WSOP bracelet. Annie has achieved many great feats in the poker world, including many high profile finishes, but she also found fame as the poker coach for movie star Ben Affleck in 2004, which helped him on to win the California state poker championship.
Annie is a formidable force in poker and will continue to be so. She is highly respected as one of the all time greats in poker, and her work has long championed the cause of women in the game. Annie now refuses to play in all women games, noting that poker is one of the few games that women and men are able to compete on equal terms.

Here she is taking down Phil Hellmuth

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