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Annie Duke

Annie Duke was born in Concord, New Hampshire, and went to Columbia University, where she double majored in English and psychology, and was awarded an NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study psycholinguistics, a field within cognitive psychology. In 2002, she moved to Portland, Oregon to work for ieLogic, a company that produces software for online real time casino gaming. In 2005 she and her children moved to the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In early 2004, Duke received considerable publicity for tutoring actor Ben Affleck, who then went on to win the 2004 California State Poker Championship. Before this time, one of her claims to poker fame was her 10th place finish in the 2000 World Series of Poker main event (one position short of the final table) while eight months pregnant with her third child. In the 2004 World Series of Poker she also eliminated her brother Howard Lederer from four separate events, including the Tournament of Champions. During this same World Series, she won her first gold bracelet, in an Omaha Hi-Lo tournament. She was one of three women to win an open event in that year's WSOP. Duke has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, in Omaha HiLo and more than three million dollars in... Next

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