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{{Short description|American poker player (born 1965)}}
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{{Infobox poker player
|name = Annie Duke
|nickname = The Duchess of Poker<ref name=Cheney/>
|image = Annie_Duke_jgphoto_002.jpg
|caption = Duke in 2016
|residence = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
|birth_name = Anne LaBarr Lederer
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|9|13|mf=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Concord, New Hampshire]], U.S.
|family = [[Howard Lederer]]
(Brother)
|wsop bracelet count = 1
|wsop final tables =
|wsop money finishes = 38
|wsop main event best finish rank = 10th
|wsop main event best finish year = 2000
|wsop main event best finish year 2 =
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|wsop main event best finish year 4 =
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'''Anne LaBarr Duke''' (née '''Lederer'''; born September 13, 1965) is an American former professional [[poker]] player and author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education. She holds a [[World Series of Poker]] (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and used to be the leading money winner among women in WSOP history, and is still in the top five as of April 2023, despite being retired from poker, last cashing at a tournament in 2010.<ref name="WATML">{{Cite web |title=Women's All Time Money List – Top 13,752 |url=http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ranking/137 |access-date=September 15, 2021 |publisher=[[The Hendon Mob]]}}</ref> Duke won the 2004 [[World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions]] and the [[National Heads-Up Poker Championship]] in 2010. She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including ''Decide to Play Great Poker'' and ''The Middle Zone'', and she published her autobiography, ''How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker'', in 2005. Duke also authored two books on decision-making,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 8, 2018 |title=Annie Duke |url=https://www.annieduke.com/books/ |access-date=November 23, 2020 |website=AnnieDuke.com}}</ref> ''Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts'', and ''How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices''.
Duke co-founded the non-profit [[Non-bracelet events at the WSOP#Ante Up for Africa|Ante Up for Africa]] with actor [[Don Cheadle]] in 2007 to benefit charities working in African nations, and has raised money for other charities and non-profits through playing in and hosting charitable poker tournaments. She has been involved in advocacy on a number of poker-related issues including advocating for the legality of online gambling and for players' rights to control their own image. Duke was co-founder, executive vice president, and commissioner of the [[Epic Poker League]] from 2011 to 2012.<ref>[http://www.bluff.com/magazine/epic-fail-2140/ "Epic Fail"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019065334/http://www.bluff.com/magazine/epic-fail-2140/ |date=October 19, 2014 }}, Bluff (magazine), April 2012</ref>
==Early life and family==
Duke, born as Anne LaBarr Lederer,<ref name="NYTStyle">{{Cite news |date=April 26, 1992 |title=Anne LaBarr Lederer is married to Benjamin B. Duke in Connecticut |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/26/style/anne-labarr-lederer-is-married-to-benjamin-b-duke-in-connecticut.html |access-date=March 5, 2013}}</ref> grew up in [[Concord, New Hampshire]], where her father, writer and linguist [[Richard Lederer]], taught English literature at [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]]<ref name="Cheney">{{Cite news |last=Cheney |first=Dina |date=July 2004 |title=Flouting Convention, Part II: Annie Duke Finds Her Place at the Poker Table |work=Columbia College Today |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.php |url-status=dead |access-date=February 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518180047/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.php |archive-date=May 18, 2014}}</ref> and her mother, Rhoda S. Lederer, daughter of trial attorney [[Craig Spangenberg]],<ref name="NYTStyle" /> taught at Concord High School.<ref name=NYTStyle/><ref name="Jones">{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Del |date=July 20, 2009 |title=Know yourself, know your rival |work=USA Today |url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=7W6J-64C1-2R4X-F539&csi=8213&hl=t&hv=t&hnsd=f&hns=t&hgn=t&oc=00240&perma=true |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> Her parents were both card players<ref name="Friess">{{Cite news |last=Friess |first=Steve |date=July 2, 2007 |title=A pair of poker aces. |work=The Boston Globe |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2007/07/02/a_pair_of_poker_aces/? |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> and Duke became interested in cards from an early age.<ref name="Deitsch">{{Cite magazine |last=Deitsch |first=Richard |date=May 26, 2005 |title=Q&A with Annie Duke |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/richard_deitsch/05/26/annie.deitsch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209091106/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/richard_deitsch/05/26/annie.deitsch/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> Her siblings are professional poker player [[Howard Lederer]] and author/poet [[Katy Lederer]], who published a memoir about the Lederer family.<ref name="Sauer">{{Cite news |last=Sauer |first=Mark |date=October 9, 2005 |title=Annie Duke found her calling |work=Union Times |___location=San Diego |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051009/news_1c09annie.html |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref>
Duke attended St. Paul's School,<ref name=NYTStyle/> While still attending St. Paul's, Annie worked her first job at [[Kentucky Fried Chicken]]. She enrolled at [[Columbia University]], joining the first [[Co-Ed|co-ed]] class in its 230-year history, and pursued a double major in [[English studies|English]] and [[psychology]].<ref name=Cheney/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cheney |first=Dina |date=July 2004 |title=Flouting Convention, Part II: Annie Duke Finds Her Place at the Poker Table |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831035625/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.html |archive-date=August 31, 2021 |access-date=August 30, 2021 |website=Columbia College Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Class of 1987 Heralds New Era at Columbia |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/about/coeducation/classof1987 |access-date=August 31, 2021 |website=Columbia College |language=en}}</ref> After graduating from Columbia, she pursued a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in psychology at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], focusing on [[cognitive linguistics]] and writing her [[Thesis|dissertation]] on a hypothesis of how children learn their first language called "[[syntactic bootstrapping]]".<ref name="Bellafante">{{Cite news |last=Bellafante |first=Ginia |date=January 19, 2006 |title=Dealt A Bad Hand? Fold 'em. Then Raise. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/garden/19duke.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> For her graduate studies she was awarded a [[National Science Foundation]] fellowship.<ref name=Cheney/> In 1991, one month before [[Dissertation#North America|defending]] her doctoral dissertation, she decided that she no longer wished to pursue academia and left school.<ref name="Jones" />
In 1992, she married Ben Duke, grandson of Ambassador [[Angier Biddle Duke]] and a descendent of [[Washington Duke]], and moved to [[Billings, Montana]].<ref name=NYTStyle/><ref name="Darrow">{{Cite news |last=Darrow |first=Chuck |date=June 8, 2010 |title=Annie Duke, Flush With Success |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=http://articles.philly.com/2010-06-08/entertainment/24961645_1_annie-duke-poker-bracelet-howard-lederer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518174836/http://articles.philly.com/2010-06-08/entertainment/24961645_1_annie-duke-poker-bracelet-howard-lederer |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> The couple divided their time between [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] and Montana between 1992 and 2002, when they moved to [[Portland, Oregon]]. They were married until 2004 and had four children.<ref name=Bellafante/><ref name="Berger">{{Cite news |last=Jamie Berger |date=Spring 2002 |title=Annie Duke, Poker Pro |work=Columbia Magazine |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2002/Duke.html |access-date=March 4, 2013}}</ref> Maud Duke was born in 1995; Leo Duke, in 1998; Lucy Duke, in 2000; and Nell Duke, in 2002. In 2005, Duke and her children relocated to [[Hollywood Hills, California]].<ref name=Cheney/><ref name=Bellafante/> She later married Eric Brooks, the cofounder of [[Susquehanna International Group]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gara |first=Antoine |date=April 10, 2021 |title=How Trader Jeff Yass Parlayed Poker And Horse Race Handicapping Into A $12 Billion Fortune |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/04/06/how-trader-jeff-yass-parlayed-poker-and-horse-racing-bets-into-a-12-billion-fortune/ |work=Forbes}}</ref>
More than 30 years after leaving graduate school, she returned to the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2022, earning her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in June 2023.<ref name="v823">{{cite web | title=Annie Duke, Ph.D. | website=Alliance for Decision Education | date=2023-11-06 | url=https://alliancefordecisioneducation.org/learn/about-the-alliance/team/annie-duke/ | access-date=2024-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis| last=Duke| first=Anne| url=https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/59143| title=FAST AND FRUGAL STATISTICAL HEURISTICS: TRANSFER OF COUNTERFACTUAL FORECASTING TRAINING WITHIN AND ACROSS DOMAINS| publisher=University of Pennsylvania| date=2023}}</ref> Annie is now an adjunct professor with Harvard Kennedy School, and UPenn Wharton School of Executive Education. <ref>{{cite web | title=Annie Duke | url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/annie-duke }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Annie Duke | website=Wharton Executive Education | date=2024-06-26 | url=https://executiveeducation.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/annie-duke-2/ | access-date=2025-06-22}}</ref>
==Professional poker career==
===Early career===
Duke first played [[Texas hold'em]] at age 22 in a casino and continued to play for fun in Las Vegas casinos while visiting her brother, [[Howard Lederer]], during her graduate school years.<ref name=Cheney/> In 1992 after Duke moved to Billings her brother encouraged her to play poker professionally, sending her $2,400 and providing her with poker instruction books and lessons by phone.<ref name=Deitsch/> She began to play poker initially at the Crystal Lounge, a local bar in Billings that had a legal poker room. Following a successful year playing in Montana, her brother prompted her to enter tournaments at the [[1994 World Series of Poker]] (WSOP) in Las Vegas.<ref name=Cheney/> Within the first month, she won $70,000 and decided to move to Las Vegas to pursue a professional poker career.<ref name=Jones/>
===Live poker===
In the first two tournaments of the 1994 World Series of Poker, Duke placed 14th and 5th, and finished 26th in the Main Event.<ref>{{Cite web |title=25th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1994, Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7904 |access-date=April 21, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=25th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1994, Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7915 |access-date=April 21, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=25th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1994, No Limit Hold'em World Championship |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7923 |access-date=April 21, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob |language=en}}</ref><ref name="HendonMob">{{Cite web |title=Annie Duke's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=74 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref> Following her move to Las Vegas, Duke continued successfully playing poker on a professional basis through the late 1990s,<ref name=Cheney/> and by 2000 had 16 [[Glossary of poker terms#in the money|in the money]] finishes at WSOP events, prior to the WSOP World Championship event that year.<ref name=Berger/>
From 2000 onward, she became well known for her high-profile achievements in WSOP events.<ref name="ESPN">{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Gary |date=March 8, 2010 |title=Welcome back, Annie Duke |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=wise_gary&id=4975781 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=ESPN.com}}</ref> In the 2000 WSOP World Championship event, although nine months pregnant with her third child, she placed 10th out of a total of 512 players, which was the second-highest finish by a woman in the event's history.<ref>{{Cite web |title=31st World Series of Poker - WSOP 2000, World Championship No Limit Texas Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=2010 |access-date=April 21, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Cheney/><ref name="WSOP">{{Cite web |title=Player Profile: Annie Duke |url=http://www.wsop.com/players/playerprofile.asp?playerID=222 |access-date=March 1, 2013 |website=wsop.com |publisher=[[World Series of Poker]]}}</ref> She received a [[World Series of Poker bracelet|WSOP gold bracelet]] in 2004, placing first out of 234 entrants in an [[Omaha hold 'em#Omaha hi-low split-8 or better|Omaha Hi-Lo Split]] tournament.<ref name="Sauer" /><ref name=Neff/> By July of that year she had become the top female money winner in the history of the WSOP; earning over $650,000 from 25 in the money finishes, including 13 at the final table.<ref name=Cheney/> Later in 2004, she placed first in the inaugural [[World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions|WSOP Tournament of Champions]], beating her brother and nine former world championship winners and winning $2 million.<ref name=Deitsch/><ref name=ESPN/><ref>{{cite web | last=Duke | first=Annie | title=I Won $2Million At A Poker Tournament No One Thought I Deserved To Be At | website=HuffPost UK | date=2019-09-06 | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/annie-duke-poker_uk_5d7210d5e4b06d55b97183e3 | access-date=2025-06-22}}</ref> In the 2006 WSOP, she was one of only two women left in the tournament when she finished in 88th place with $51,129 in winnings.<ref name="Calistri">{{Cite news |last=Calistri |first=Amy |date=January 3, 2007 |title=Women and Poker: A 2006 Retrospective |work=Poker News.com |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/01/women-poker-2006-retrospective.htm |access-date=March 7, 2013}}</ref> In 2006, Annie won the 2nd annual World Series of Poker's Rock, Paper Scissors Tournament. <ref>{{cite web | title=Annie Duke Wins 2nd Annual World Series of Poker's Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament (My research assistant gets knocked out in the first round) | date=July 26, 2006 | url=https://freakonomics.com/2006/07/annie-duke-wins-2nd-annual-world-series-of-poker-rock-paper-scissors-tournament-my-research-assistant-gets-knocked-out-in-the-first-round/ }}</ref>
In 2010, Duke won the NBC [[National Heads-Up Poker Championship]]; she outlasted a field of 64 players, including eliminating previous winner [[Huck Seed]], and defeating [[Erik Seidel]] in the final match.<ref name="Keefer">{{Cite news |last=Keefer |first=Case |date=March 7, 2010 |title=Annie Duke outlasts 63 poker pros, becomes heads-up champion |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/mar/07/annie-duke-outlasts-63-top-poker-pros-becomes-head |access-date=March 1, 2013 |work=Las Vegas Sun}}</ref> She won $500,000 and became the first and only female winner of the event, which ended in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burton |first=Earl |date=March 2, 2014 |title=National Heads Up Poker Championship Will Not Be Held in 2014 |url=https://www.pokernewsdaily.com/national-heads-up-poker-championship-will-not-be-held-in-2014-25476/ |access-date=December 24, 2023 |website=Poker News Daily |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="ESPN" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Burton |first=Earl |date=January 11, 2013 |title=Editorial: Who Should Be In The Field For The National Heads Up Poker Championship? |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/editorial-who-should-be-in-the-field-for-the-national-heads-up-poker-championship-23099 |access-date=April 18, 2013 |work=Poker News Daily}}</ref>
In a 2020 interview, Duke described herself as retired from poker, stating she had not played since 2012.<ref name=Retired/> Duke's total winnings from her 39 [[List of poker terms#cashing|cashes]] at the WSOP is $1,166,567.<ref name=WSOP/> {{As of|2021|September}}, Duke's total lifetime live tournament winnings of $4,270,548<ref name=HendonMob/> still place her at fourth overall on the list of women all-time live tournament winnings.<ref name=WATML/>
====World Series of Poker Bracelets====
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Tournament
!Prize (US$)
|-
|[[2004 World Series of Poker|2004]]
|$3,000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB
|$137,860
|}
===Online poker activities===
From 2001 to 2004, Duke worked as a spokesperson and consultant for {{Proper name|ieLogic}}, a company that developed online poker software for multiplayer poker websites including [[Cereus Poker Network|Ultimate Bet]].<ref name=Cheney/> She moved to Portland, Oregon where {{Proper name|ieLogic}} was based in 2002 and remained there until 2005.<ref name=Bellafante/>
===Ultimate Bet scandal ===
In 2008, poker champion and Ultimate Bet spokesperson [[Russ Hamilton (poker player)|Russ Hamilton]] was found to be using cheating software to see other players' cards, which would ultimately win him millions of dollars. Though Ultimate Bet officials assured users that Hamilton acted alone, later evidence showed that other officials at the site knew about the scheme.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peters |first=Justin |date=May 29, 2013 |title=The Online Poker Cheating Scandal That Keeps Going and Going |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/05/ultimatepoker-and-ultimatebet-the-online-poker-scandal-that-never-ends.html |website=Slate}}</ref>
Duke represented Ultimate Bet as a spokesperson until December 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the company.<ref name="Welman">{{Cite web |last=Welman |first=Jessica |date=December 30, 2010 |title=Annie Duke Parts Ways with UB Poker |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/annie-duke-parts-ways-with-ub-poker-17735 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226180601/http://www.bluff.com/news/annie-duke-parts-ways-with-ub-poker-17735/ |archive-date=February 26, 2013 |access-date=February 20, 2013 |website=Bluff}}</ref> No evidence was presented against Duke and there was no investigation of such with regard to any involvement or benefiting from any fraudulent crimes pertaining to the company.
On two occasions, Duke has testified in Congress on behalf of the [[Poker Players Alliance]] regarding the legality of [[online gambling|Internet gambling]]. In 2007, she appeared in front of the [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|House Committee on the Judiciary]] to testify against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006,<ref name="PPATestimony">{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2007 |title=Testimony of Annie Duke on Behalf of the Poker Players Alliance House Committee on the Judiciary "Establishing Consistent Enforcement Policies in the Context of Internet Wagers" |url=http://theppa.org/press-releases/2007/11/13/dc-annie-duke-testimony-for-judiciary-hearing |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140518145021/http://theppa.org/press-releases/2007/11/13/dc-annie-duke-testimony-for-judiciary-hearing |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=ThePPA.org |publisher=Poker Players Alliance}}</ref> and in 2010, she appeared in front of the [[United States House Committee on Financial Services|House Committee on Financial Services]] to provide support for H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act.<ref name="HR2267Testimony">{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2012 |title=Testimony of Annie Duke on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance House Committee on Financial Services "H.R. 2267, Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act" |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/34649389/HR2267-Annie-Duke-Testimony-07-21-10 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=House Committee on Financial Services |archive-date=May 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522114532/http://www.scribd.com/doc/34649389/HR2267-Annie-Duke-Testimony-07-21-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2013, audio recordings released by Travis Makar proved that Duke knew about the so-called God Mode but did not use it to swindle players as it was on a time delay.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burton |first=Earl |date=May 11, 2013 |title=Damaging Audio Recordings Of Ultimate Bet Superuser Scandal Released |url=https://www.pokernewsdaily.com/damaging-audio-recordings-of-ultimate-bet-superuser-scandal-released-23787 |website=PokerNewsDaliy}}</ref>
===Retirement from poker ===
As of June 2020, Duke describes herself as retired from poker and says she has not played since 2012.<ref name="Retired">{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2018 |title=Annie Duke |url=https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/annie-duke/ |access-date=September 8, 2020 |website=conversationswithtyler.com}}</ref>
===Other poker activities===
====Debates, advocacy and coaching====
In addition to her advocacy regarding online gambling on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance,<ref name=PPATestimony/> Duke has also been involved in debate about whether players should be allowed to wear the logos of their sponsor companies at televised poker events. In the mid-2000s, she was one of a number of players that argued against such restrictions being placed on players.<ref name="Rosenbloom">{{Cite news |last=Rosenbloom |first=Steve |date=April 13, 2005 |title=Players aren't bluffing in logo battle |work=ESPN.com |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=rosenbloom_steve&id=2036285 |access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>
In 2006, she was one of seven players who filed a lawsuit against the [[World Poker Tour]] (WPT), alleging that the WPT's release forms, required for participation in their events, were anti-competitive and violated individuals' rights to their own image.<ref name="Caldwell">{{Cite news |last=Caldwell |first=John |date=July 19, 2006 |title=Several Top Players File a Lawsuit Against the World Poker Tour |work=Poker News.com |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/07/several-players-file-lawsuit-wpt.htm |access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref> The suit was settled in 2008, when the WPT agreed to modify the release form.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hintze |first=Hayley |date=April 2008 |title=World Poker Tour Settles Player Release Lawsuit |work=Poker News.com |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/04/world-poker-tour-settles-player-release-lawsuit.htm |access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>
Duke has opposed and avoided playing at the WSOP Ladies Event, arguing that having a separate WSOP bracelet event for women suggests that there is a difference in intellect between men and women.<ref name="West">{{Cite web |last=West |first=Justin |title=An Interview With Annie Duke – Part II |url=http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/west32.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911001842/http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/west32.htm |archive-date=September 11, 2013 |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=Poker Pages}}</ref> Duke has supported women in poker through coaching women players at the LIPS (Ladies International Poker Series) Tour,<ref name="Bergstrom">{{Cite web |last=Bergstrom |first=Tina |date=August 10, 2007 |title=Women's Poker Spotlight |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/08/Womens-Poker-Spotlight-August-10-2007.htm |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=Poker News.com}}</ref> instructing at several women-only World Series of Poker Academy events,<ref name=West/> and giving the keynote speech at the 2011 Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony.<ref name="Newell">{{Cite web |last=Newell |first=Jennifer |date=September 23, 2011 |title=She Said/He Said: Women Should Accept Annie Duke's Challenge |url=http://www.womanpokerplayer.com/pokernews/1307-she-saidshe-said-women-should-accept-annie-dukes-challenge.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329123321/http://www.womanpokerplayer.com/pokernews/1307-she-saidshe-said-women-should-accept-annie-dukes-challenge.html |archive-date=March 29, 2013 |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=Woman Poker Player}}</ref>
She has served on the World Series of Poker Player Advisory Council<ref name=Meth/> and has taught at the [[World Series of Poker#WSOP Poker Academy|WSOP Poker Academy]] poker school.<ref name="DelMar">{{Cite news |last=Del Mar |first=Maria |date=June 26, 2009 |title=WSOP Academy features Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth to teach in Main Event Primer |work=Poker News Daily |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/wsop-academy-features-annie-duke-phil-hellmuth-to-teach-in-main-event-primer-3117 |access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref> She has coached a number of celebrities on how to play poker, including [[Matt Damon]] and [[Ben Affleck]],<ref name=Sauer/> whom she coached to win the 2004 [[Commerce Casino#Tournaments|California State Poker Championship]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barton |first=Shawnee |date=January 11, 2013 |title=What It's Like to Be a Woman Who Plays Professional Poker |work=[[The Atlantic]] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-who-plays-professional-poker/267037 |access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>
====Organizations====
====Books, DVDs and product line====
Duke's first book was an autobiography titled ''Annie Duke: How I raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker'' ({{ISBN|1594630127|978-1594630125}}) was published in September 2005.<ref name="Deitsch" /> ''Decide to Play Great Poker'', (co-authored with John Vorhaus.<ref name="HuffingtonPost">{{Cite web |title=Annie Duke profile |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-duke |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=The Huffington Post}}</ref>) is a strategy book for no-limit hold'em, and was published in June 2011. The following year, Duke and Vorhaus published a second book together, ''The Middle Zone'', which focused on strategy for difficult [[List of poker hands|hands]].<ref name="Smith">{{Cite web |date=July 31, 2012 |title=2 for Poker learned quickly: 200 Poker Tells, The Middle Zone |url=http://gamingtoday.com/articles/article/37237-2_for_Poker_learned_quickly_200_Poker_Tells_The_Middle_Zone |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=Gaming Today}}</ref> ''Thinking in Bets'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552885/thinking-in-bets-by-annie-duke/9780735216358/ |access-date=June 11, 2018 |website=Penguin Random House}}</ref> is a guide to selecting and applying decision strategies in uncertainty, was released in 2018. In addition to her instructional books, Duke released an instructional DVD series including ''Annie Duke's Advanced Texas Hold'em Secrets: How to Beat the Big Boys''<ref name="Bellafante" /><ref name="HuffingtonPost" /> and in 2005 she launched a range of poker products with [[ESPN]].<ref name="Deitsch" /> In 2020, ''How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices'' ({{ISBN|0593418484|978-0593418482}}) was released. In 2022 Duke released ''Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away'' ({{ISBN|0593422996|978-0593422991}}).
==Philanthropy==
Duke cofounded Alliance for Decision Education in 2014. <ref>{{cite web | title=Annie Duke Author. Speaker. Decision Strategist | date=February 13, 2023 | url=https://www.annieduke.com/about/ }}</ref> Duke, actor [[Don Cheadle]], and a mutual friend, Norman Epstein, co-founded the non-profit Ante Up for Africa in 2007 to raise money with [[Non-bracelet events at the WSOP#Ante Up for Africa|poker tournaments]] for charities benefiting African countries.<ref name=Meth/><ref name="Arseniuk">{{Cite news |last=Arseniuk |first=Melissa |date=May 14, 2009 |title=Matt Damon, Charles Barkley to play in charity poker tournament |work=[[Las Vegas Sun]] |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/14/celebrities-gathering-vegas-charity-poker-tourname |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> The first tournament in July 2007 was held at the start of the World Series of Poker<ref name=Neff/> and raised more than $700,000, which was donated to the [[Enough Project|ENOUGH Project]] and the [[International Rescue Committee]].<ref name="Meth">{{Cite web |last=Meth |first=Madeline |date=July 11, 2007 |title=''Ante Up For Africa'' Raises over $700,000 at the World Series of Poker® To Provide Relief in Darfur |url=http://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement/2007/07/11/14274/ante-up-for-africa-raises-over-700000-at-the-world-series-of-poker-to-provide-relief-in-darfur |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=[[Center for American Progress]]}}</ref><ref name="Hintze">{{Cite web |last=Hintze |first=Haley |date=May 18, 2007 |title=Don Cheadle, Annie Duke to Headline WSOP Darfur Fundraiser |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/05/wsop-darfur-fundraiser.htm |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=Poker News.com}}</ref> In 2008, 2009 and 2010, money raised in the organization's tournaments was again donated to the ENOUGH Project, and also to [[Not On Our Watch Project|Not On Our Watch]],<ref name="Davis">{{Cite news |last=Davis |first=Laura |date=April 9, 2008 |title=Stars put on poker faces for charity |work=Las Vegas Review-Journal |url=http://www.lvrj.com/news/22860799.html |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> [[Refugees International]],<ref name="Cypra">{{Cite web |last=Cypra |first=Dan |date=May 12, 2009 |title=Annie Duke Discusses Outcome of Celebrity Apprentice Season 2 |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-discusses-outcome-of-celebrity-apprentice-season-2-2406 |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=Poker News.com}}</ref> [[Water.org]], and the [[Eastern Congo Initiative]].<ref name="Leach">{{Cite web |last=Leach |first=Robin |date=July 4, 2010 |title=Don Cheadle and Annie Duke's Ante Up for Africa raises $275,000 |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/04/photos-don-cheadle-and-annie-dukes-ante-africa-rai |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=Las Vegas Sun}}</ref>
In 2009, Duke entered the reality television show ''[[The Apprentice (U.S. season 8)|Celebrity Apprentice]]'' to raise money for Refugees International. She finished as a runner up to [[Joan Rivers]] and raised more than $700,000 for her chosen charity,<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Annie Duke Wins $700,000 for Refugees International as the second place victor on Celebrity Apprentice |date=May 11, 2009 |publisher=Refugees International |url=http://www.refugeesinternational.org/press-room/press-release/annie-duke-wins-700000-refugees-international-second-place-victor-celebrity |access-date=April 23, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424050513/http://refugeesinternational.org/press-room/press-release/annie-duke-wins-700000-refugees-international-second-place-victor-celebrity |archive-date=April 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Cypra" /> over half of the total amount raised by contestants on the show. After the season ended, fans continued to donate to Refugees International and in May 2009 Duke hosted a charity poker tournament at the [[Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)|Hard Rock Hotel and Casino]] to benefit the charity.<ref name="Cox">{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Diania |date=May 27, 2009 |title=Annie Duke Gets Poker Players to Suck Out on Joan Rivers |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/annie-duke-gets-poker-players-to-suck-out-on-joan-rivers-3531 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518212137/http://www.bluff.com/news/annie-duke-gets-poker-players-to-suck-out-on-joan-rivers-3531/ |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=Bluff Magazine}}</ref>
Duke has played in and hosted charitable poker tournaments for organizations including Life Rolls On, the [[Cystic Fibrosis Foundation]], and [[Boston Children's Hospital]],<ref name=HuffingtonPost/> for which she helped to raise $500,000 in 2007<ref name="Neff">{{Cite news |last=Neff |first=Erin |date=July 5, 2007 |title=All in for charity |work=[[Las Vegas Review-Journal]] |url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=4P4F-M9C0-TX2T-D29R&csi=156861&hl=t&hv=t&hnsd=f&hns=t&hgn=t&oc=00240&perma=true |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> and $425,000 in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Fall 2012 |title=Let the Chips Fall |url=http://giving.childrenshospital.org/document.doc?id=378 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514000031/http://giving.childrenshospital.org/document.doc?id=378 |archive-date=May 14, 2013 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |website=Spirit of Giving |publisher=Boston Children's Hospital}}</ref> She played in a charity poker tournament organized by the Poker Players Alliance in July 2009 to benefit the [[United Service Organizations]] and the [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center]]<ref name="Wells">{{Cite news |last=Wells |first=Carrie |date=July 21, 2009 |title=Lobbyists working to stack the deck in favor of fewer online poker rules |work=[[Minneapolis Star-Tribune]] |url=http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=51357902 |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> and hosted a poker tournament in May 2010 to raise money for [[After-School All-Stars]], a non-profit supporting after-school programs for children from low income families.<ref name="Katz">{{Cite news |last=Katz |first=Dan |date=May 5, 2010 |title=Annie Duke to Host Charity Poker Tournament for After-School All-Stars |work=Poker News Daily |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-to-host-charity-poker-tournament-for-after-school-all-stars-11047 |access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>
From 2007, Duke served as a member of the board of directors for the Decision Education Foundation, a non-profit organization based in [[Palo Alto, California]] which provides training for teachers and mentors to produce curricula focused on decision-making skills for their students.<ref name="MercuryNews">{{Cite news |date=November 7, 2007 |title=People on the Move |work=San Jose Mercury News |url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?oc=00240&hl=t&hns=t&hnsd=f&perma=true&lni=4R2Y-4WX0-TXCN-M195&hv=t&csi=313960&hgn=t&secondRedirectIndicator=true |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, she is no longer a member of the board of directors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DEF Board of Directors |url=http://www.decisioneducation.org/about-DEF/board-of-directors |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025142606/http://www.decisioneducation.org/about-DEF/board-of-directors |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |website=Decision Education |publisher=Decision Education Foundation}}</ref>
In 2014, Annie Duke founded How I Decide,<ref>{{Cite web |title=How I Decide |url=http://www.howidecide.org |access-date=June 11, 2018 |website=How I Decide}}</ref> a nonprofit to help young people develop the essential life skills of critical thinking and decision making. In 2016, she joined the board of directors for the [[Franklin Institute]], one of America's oldest museums.
Duke was a co-founder and commissioner of the [[Epic Poker League]],<ref name="Hoppes">{{Cite web |last=Hoppes |first=Lynn |date=October 2011 |title=Annie Duke talks Epic Poker League, role model |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index?id=7067196 |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=[[ESPN.com]]}}</ref> which sponsored three tournaments at the [[Palms Casino Resort]] in 2011.<ref name="Stutz">{{Cite news |last=Stutz |first=Howard |date=June 15, 2012 |title=Pinnacle Entertainment acquires bankrupt operators of Epic Poker League and Heartland Poker Tour |work=Las Vegas Review-Journal |url=http://www.lvrj.com/business/pinnacle-entertainment-acquires-bankrupt-operators-of-epic-poker-league-and-heartland-poker-tour-159196295.html |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> Through the three tournaments, the league raised more than $125,000 for charity:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Welman |first=Jennifer |date=December 11, 2011 |title=By The Numbers: Epic Poker Mix Max |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/by-the-numbers-epic-poker-mix-max-25633 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518211452/http://www.bluff.com/news/by-the-numbers-epic-poker-mix-max-25633/ |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |access-date=March 14, 2013 |website=[[Bluff (magazine)|Bluff]]}}</ref> $53,000 for humanitarian organization [[Operation USA]];<ref name="Welman11">{{Cite web |last=Welman |first=Jennifer |date=August 15, 2011 |title=By The Numbers: Epic Poker League Debut |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/by-the-numbers-epic-poker-league-debut-24301 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518212733/http://www.bluff.com/news/by-the-numbers-epic-poker-league-debut-24301/ |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=[[Bluff (magazine)|Bluff]]}}</ref> $25,000 for the charity Fallen Heroes USA, which supports families of law enforcement officers who die in service;<ref name="Feldman">{{Cite web |last=Feldman |first=Andrew |date=September 7, 2011 |title=Anything but an Epic showing in Vegas |url=http://espn.go.com/fantasy/blog/_/name/poker/id/6939140/epic-poker-league-second-event-attracts-97-player-field |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629101034/http://espn.go.com/fantasy/blog/_/name/poker/id/6939140/epic-poker-league-second-event-attracts-97-player-field |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2013 |access-date=February 26, 2013 |website=ESPN.com}}</ref> and $48,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation's "Bad Beat on Cancer" campaign.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1, 2012 |title=Epic Poker Charity Tournament Raises $48,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation |url=http://blog.preventcancer.org/2012/epic-poker-charity-tournament-raises-48000-for-the-prevent-cancer-foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917235208/http://blog.preventcancer.org/2012/epic-poker-charity-tournament-raises-48000-for-the-prevent-cancer-foundation/ |archive-date=September 17, 2013 |access-date=March 1, 2013 |website=Prevent Cancer Foundation blog |publisher=Prevent Cancer Foundation}}</ref>
The league was co-founded by former World Series of Poker commissioner [[Jeffrey Pollack]], operating under Pollack's company Federated Sports + Gaming. After Epic Poker held its first three planned events, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 28, 2012. Filing records show Federated Sports + Gaming owed creditors more than $8 million, while Duke earned at least $299,000 in salary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Epic Poker Statement Shows More Than $7.8M in Liabilities |url=http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/13091-epic-poker-statement-shows-over-7-8m-in-liabilities |access-date=May 13, 2013}}</ref> The Epic Poker League and its parent company were acquired by [[Pinnacle Entertainment]] in a June 2012 bankruptcy auction.<ref name=Stutz/> During 2011, Duke and Eric Faulkner, the CIO of Federated Sports + Gaming, created the [[Global poker index]] (GPI). The index ranks the top 300 live tournament poker players each week.<ref name="Holloway">{{Cite web |last=Holloway |first=Chad |date=July 15, 2011 |title=Revolutionizing the Rankings: a Look at the Global Poker Index |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2011/07/revolutionizing-rankings-a-look-at-the-global-poker-index-10704.htm |access-date=February 21, 2013 |website=Poker News.com}}</ref>
==Other ventures==
She performed for storytelling organization [[The Moth]],<ref name="Bronner">{{Cite web |last=Bronner |first=Sasha |date=March 3, 2012 |title=STOPPING THE SOUNDBITES: The Moth To Launch Three Big Shows A Year |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-moth-los-angeles_n_1317636 |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref> and in January 2013, she was a featured storyteller on the Unchained Tour, a storytelling tour across the Southern United States.<ref name="Wake">{{Cite news |last=Wake |first=Matt |date=January 9, 2013 |title=Unchained Tour storytellers traveling via '70s school bus to Huntsville's Flying Monkey Arts |work=The Huntsville Times |url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/01/unchained_tour_brings_storytel.html |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Moth – Radio Hour – Texas Hold 'Em, Kin, and Cloistered Nuns |url=http://themoth.org/posts/episodes/1313 |website=The Moth}}</ref>
===Television===
In the mid-2000s, Duke was a producer and consultant for ''All In'', a pilot television show for [[NBC]] based on her life, in which she was portrayed by [[Janeane Garofalo]]; the series was not picked up by the network. In the same time period, she also created ''Annie Duke Takes on the World'', a television show on the [[Game Show Network]] in which she played poker against amateur players.<ref name=Sauer/>
She has appeared on a number of television shows, including being the first poker personality to appear on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' on January 30, 2006,<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Annie Duke appears on |url=http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/58369/january-30-2006/annie-duke |series=''The Colbert Report'' |series-link=The Colbert Report |date=January 30, 2006}}</ref> and finishing in second place in the 2009 season of ''[[Celebrity Apprentice]]''.<ref name=Cox/> Duke has appeared on ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'' and ''[[1 vs. 100 (U.S. game show)|1 vs. 100]]''. On the latter, she answered correctly to 35 questions in a row before she was eliminated. She also reappeared for the "last man standing" game finishing in the final 5.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Jeremy |date=June 24, 2008 |title=Annie Duke – Poker Player Profile |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-51 |access-date=April 23, 2013 |website=Poker News Daily}}</ref>
In 2007, Duke appeared on the premiere episode of the classic poker TV show ''[[Poker After Dark]]'' on NBC.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 10, 2020 |title=Annie Duke's Life: Net Worth, Biggest Profits, Losses and Private Life |url=http://somuchpoker.com/annie-dukes-life-net-worth-biggest-profits-losses-and-private-life/ |access-date=September 11, 2020 |website=Somuchpoker |language=en-US}}</ref>
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