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Annie Duke's
Poker History
 Born
in Concord, New Hampshire and educated at Columbia University, Annie
Duke originally intended to become a professor. In graduate school
her brother, two-time WPT champion and World Series of Poker bracelet
winner Howard Lederer, invited her to come with him to Las Vegas
during the WSOP. It was here that he taught her the basics of Texas
Hold’em, and finally, after 5 years of graduate school her frequent
trips to Vegas got the better of her, and she decided that she wasn't
destined to teach: this was just the beginning of her poker career.
She began playing poker more seriously, and her brother - impressed
by her budding skill - was able to finally convince her to play
at the WSOP where she took 13th place. Not bad by anyone's standards,
but in her next tournament, she placed 3rd. She even knocked her
brother out of a tournament she went on to place in as a money winner!
She eventually moved to Las Vegas with her family so
she could play professionally, and became the most successful woman
in the history of the WSOP, earning over $500,000 and 11 final tables
in just 8 years of playing.
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