Annie Duke

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Annie Duke
Annie Duke (2016)
Annie Duke (2016)
  Personal information  
Date of birth September 13, 1965
place of birth United StatesUnited States Concord
Nickname The Duchess
place of residence United StatesUnited States Portland
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 2,000,000
Total prize money $ 4,270,548
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 38
Best main event 10. ( 2000 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 5
Last updated: August 9, 2020

Annie LaBarr Duke (née Lederer ; born September 13, 1965 in Concord , New Hampshire ) is a professional American poker player .

family

Duke's father, Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist, taught at St. Paul's School. Her brother Howard Lederer is also a professional poker player, and her sister Katy Lederer is a writer and poet.

Education

Duke went to Columbia University , where she graduated with degrees in English and psychology .

Duke received a membership in the National Science Foundation , which allowed her to study cognitive psychology , especially psycholinguistics, at the University of Pennsylvania . She wanted to become a professor, but in 1992 she left university after studying for five years. That was a month before she could get her PhD in Philosophy . She preferred family life with her husband, Ben Duke, and moved with him to Columbus, a town in Montana .

poker

Duke at the 2007 WSOP

In Montana, Duke began playing poker at card shops in Billings . Her brother Howard Lederer was already a professional player at this point and supported his sister financially. In 1994 she moved to Las Vegas with her husband so that she could devote herself to poker. Prior to 2004, she reached the 10th place in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 2000 , while she was in the eighth month of pregnancy with her third child. In early 2004, Duke gained some notoriety for coaching actor Ben Affleck , who subsequently won the California State Poker Championship . In September 2004, Duke won the WSOP Tournament of Champions for a $ 2 million prize money . She prevailed as the only woman at the final table against the then world champion Greg Raymer and in heads-up against Phil Hellmuth . After this success, she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman . In the 2004 WSOP won Duke a bracelet in the variant Omaha Hi-Lo .

Duke no longer takes part in women’s tournaments, as she says poker is one of the few sports where women have exactly the same chances as men, making special women’s tournaments unnecessary. Duke is one of the many poker players who doesn't like the restrictions on television tournaments. Although players have to pay an entry fee, many organizers do not allow players to wear sponsor logos. In April 2005, Duke sparked controversy when she remarked that poker players were not even slaves, but had to pay to work on plantations (original: We [poker players] are not even slaves. We're people paying to pick the cotton. ).

Overall, Duke has earned more than $ 4 million in live poker tournaments, making it fourth among the most successful women in terms of tournament prize money .

Other ventures

Duke has worked as a spokesperson for UltimateBet since 2000 and has written many articles for this online poker site, mostly on Omaha HiLo. She has various nicknames, including "Annie Legend", "The Duke", and "The Duchess of Poker". Her sister Katy Lederer wrote the book Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers about the Lederer family. Duke wrote her own biography, Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at The World Series of Poker . This means, for example, Annie Duke: How I raised, passed, bluffed, flirted, cursed and won millions at the World Series of Poker . She appeared as the first athlete on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report on January 30, 2006 , where she also discussed her book and what it's like to assert yourself as a woman in a male-dominated sport. At the end of the show, presenter Stephen Colbert celebrated a victory over Duke in a game of five-card draw before realizing that a new deck of cards had never been shuffled.

In 2002 she moved to Portland , Oregon to work for ieLogic. This company produces software for online poker. In 2004 she divorced her husband, Ben Duke. She and her four children moved to the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles in 2005 . Their new home in the Mediterranean style and her partner, the actor and producer Joe Reitman, were in the article of the New York Times At Home With Annie Duke (German In Annie Duke at home pictured) on January 19 of 2006.

In 2005, Duke helped her brother Howard Lederer market a series of poker video games that featured both siblings as virtual characters.

In 2006, the Game Show Network showed a television special called Annie Duke Takes on the World (in German about Annie Duke takes it with the world on ) which was shown in the Annie Duke as they played against several poker amateurs.

Web links

Commons : Annie Duke  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annie Duke in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ Mom Shuffles Kids And Cards on cbsnews.com from June 4, 2003, accessed on January 9, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Women's All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Annie Duke, David Diamond: Annie Duke: How I raised, folded, bluffed, flirted, cursed, and won millions at the world series of poker . Hudson Street Press, New York, NY 2005, ISBN 1-59463-012-7 ( information in Google Book Search [accessed October 21, 2010]).
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke, Annie LaBarr (full name); Lederer, Annie LaBarr (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Concord , New Hampshire , United States