Poker Player Annie Duke
Posted by Curtom | August 1, 2008 | Posted in: Articles, Reviews |
Annie Duke
Annie Duke is a professional poker player. Duke is considered to be amongst the top echelon of female poker players. Duke is the sister of Full Tilt Poker President Howard Lederer. It was Howard that initially staked Annie and provided his council when duke decided to leave her graduate studies to pursue poker on a full-time basis. Since then Duke has gone on to win a bracelet in the WSOP Omaha Hi/Lo $5000 buy0in event. It marked the first time a woman had won a bracelet in the event.
Duke also has gone on to win the 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions for a cool $2 Million dollar pay day.
Duke is probably best known as a poker coach to the stars as she tutored Been Afleck, just before he won the California State Poker Championship, and several others helping them to fine tune their game.
Duke can be a bit abrassive at the table and has consistently gotten into scrapes with players and authority throughout her poker career. She is devoutly loyal to her brother Howard Lederer almost to the point of being creepy.
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Due to the recent scandal with Ultimate Bet cheating players out of millions of dollars and Annie’s association with that site, it does not speak highly of her to not disassociate herself from UB. UB denied and try to stop the investigation, but now have finally came clean about it. It’s a sad situation and there are rumblings that there may even be a story about it on 60 minutes.
Thanks for stopping by BB. I agree with you. I think both Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth should have been up front with denouncing this kind of behavior a long time ago. They should have told them “fix it or I walk!” They also should have demanded some kind of public acknowledgment of the problem to their customers too. I am extremely disappointed in how UB has handled this scenario.