Annie Duke

Well, my WSOP 2009 has come to an end and left me sick as a dog.  I started feeling punky during the Ante Up for Africa tournament and went on a serious downslide since then. Stuffy nose, cough, headache. All around nasty cold. And to add insult to injury I got sick just as the [...]

Thursday was our 3rd annual Ante Up for Africa tournament at the World Series of Poker and it was a huge success.  Three years ago Don Cheadle, Norman Epstein and I founded Ante Up for Africa, a charity to raise money for relief efforts in Darfur through poker events. When we founded the charity we [...]

After all the darkness this week with the death of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, I was really happy when I found this video of David Sedaris from Letterman a few years ago (thanks Spike Lampros for posting this on Facebook!).  This was just the thing I needed today to lighten the mood [...]

The news of Michael Jackson’s death is so shocking. I think in recent years it has been so easy to take shots at him. I know I had kind of forgotten how amazing he was before he morphed into the individual so far removed from the Michael Jackson we used to know. A few months [...]

Well this past week at the WSOP has been a tough one on me, mainly because I am just having won of those weeks where I can’t get my hands to hold up and can’t hit my big draws. When that happens, especially in limit tournaments, you feel a little handcuffed to your cards and [...]

Our third annual Ante Up for Africa tournament is so close. July 2nd is right around the corner and I am so excited for this year with ESPN filming the event and making it one of its episodes for their WSOP coverage. The ESPN coverage will do so much tor aise awareness about the crisis [...]

Well…I had all these grand plans today to post these really cool dance videos but that is going to have to wait till this weekend because I caught Mike Matusow today in the VIP room at the Rio while testing out my new iPhone. Joe Sebok and I were having a chat and I decided [...]

The long hours of the WSOP can really get you down. Bikram Southwest changed its class schedule which happens to make it really hard for me to get over there with the WSOP schedule. Last year they had classes starting every hour. This year they have a 10 am which is too early for someone [...]

In the midst of the incredibly busy WSOP, I’m always looking for mindless distraction. Sneezies and Crayon Physics are always a good way to go (although Crayon Physics isn’t mindless but is a great distraction). Those are both apps for the iPhone. I particularly recommend Crayon Physics which is so much fun…it is a game [...]

I am pretty excited because I have come out of the gate at the WSOP pretty fast here. I have played 5 events so far and cashed twice already with one final table under my belt. We started the $10K Championship Omaha 8 or better on Sunday night. It was my first event back after [...]