Annie Duke is an American, born September 13, 1965, in Concord, New Hampshire, a former professional poker player who later became an author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education. She won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the 2004 Omaha Hi-Lo Split event and the same year captured the WSOP Tournament of Champions, defeating her brother and nine former world champions for a two million dollar prize, and in 2010 she became the first and only woman to win the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. In 2000 she placed tenth in the WSOP Main Event while nine months pregnant, the second-highest female finish in that event's history, and she retired from poker in 2012 with 1.17 million dollars in career WSOP winnings across 39 cashes.
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Career HighlightHolds a 2004 World Series of Poker gold bracelet and won the 2004 WSOP Tournament of Champions and the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. 1 Classification
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How did Annie Duke go from academic psychology to poker and then to decision science?
She left a psychology PhD in 1991 and later returned to finish it in 2023.
Annie Duke studied English and psychology at Columbia University and then began a psychology PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on cognitive linguistics. In 1991, one month before defending her dissertation, she decided against a career in academia and left school. After her poker career she became an author on decision making, publishing Thinking in Bets in 2018 and How to Decide in 2020, and she cofounded the Alliance for Decision Education in 2014. She returned to the University of Pennsylvania and earned her PhD in cognitive psychology in June 2023.
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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.
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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.
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Duke won the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2010.
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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.
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She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, as well as an autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, in 2005.
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is an American former professional poker player and author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education.
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