Annie Duke: Author, mother, television star, Celebrity Apprentice contestant, and - most importantly – a world-class poker player. After making her family’s mortgage payments by playing in local poker rooms, she signed up for the 1994 World Series of Poker at the urging of her brother, Howard Lederer. After finishing 13th in her first WSOP and winning $70,000 in her first month of professional poker play, Annie Duke’s future was set. Over the course of the next decade, she played fiercely and won, taught Ben Affleck how to win at the tables and took tenth place in the WSOP while eight months pregnant with her third child. Annie Duke later came back to the World Series of Poker to get a bracelet of her very own while getting more ‘in-the-money’ finishes than any other female player in WSOP history.

With all of these accomplishments, it’s easy to see why Annie Duke was picked as a contestant on NBC’s reality hit Celebrity Apprentice. Now in its second season, Celebrity Apprentice promises more thrills than before, with sixteen celebrities battling to become Donald Trump’s next Apprentice while winning money for their favorite charities.
Annie has selected Refugees International, an organization dedicated to delivering humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced persons around the world while working to end the conditions that create displacement.

In addition to her wins at the poker table, Annie Duke is also recognized as one of the driving forces in poker culture. She was picked by UB to serve as one of the online poker room’s consultants during its launch and has helped guide their expansion over the past decade. Her book Annie Duke: How I raised, folded, bluffed, flirted, cursed and won millions at the World Series of Poker was a hit with hardcore poker fans and neophytes alike thanks to its frank discussion of her struggles to balance her family life and her quest to win her first WSOP bracelet. Annie’s Masters of Poker and Supercourse DVDs have helped thousands of players learn from one of the game’s true leaders. Most important is Annie’s greatest accomplishment - her four children: Maud, Leo, Lucy and Nelly.