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"The Duke - Annie
Duke, one of the few
women playing at poker's
elite level!"
- Andy Glazer
"The best all-around
woman poker player in
the world today!"
- Phil Hellmuth, Jr.
While admired by some of poker's leading experts as one of the world's best women poker players, Annie prefers to take "woman" out of it when she sits down at the poker tables. And, since this mother of four earns her living beating some of the best players around, we'd say she has the right.
Annie was just 26 when she left a doctoral program in psycholinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania to begin playing poker in earnest. With a few tips from her brother, Howard Lederer (a pretty good player in his own right!), and several David Sklansky books under her belt, she sat down, started winning, and never looked back.
So far it seems like a wise career choice. In 2003 alone she has placed in the money 4 times so far, netting over $100,000! And, according to Binion's in Las Vegas, Annie is the top leading money winner among women (It is, after all, still primarily a man's world) in World Series of Poker history, earning more than $500,000 in 21 finishes and 11 final tables. This includes the 10th