Annie Duke gets $2 million after winning Vegas poker tournament

[wilheim]

Annie Duke beat out her older brother and eight other poker legends to win $2 million and the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.

The 39-year-old Duke outlasted the other players in an grueling game held earlier this month at the Rio hotel-casino.

ESPN telecast the event, the results of which had been kept secret, in a nearly three-hour broadcast Tuesday night.

Duke, the only woman to play in the No-Limit Texas Hold'Em event, knocked out the garrulous Phil Hellmuth to take the title after being on the verge of elimination most of the event.

The players included four past World Series of Poker champions: Greg Raymer, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and Hellmuth. Brother Howard Lederer, T.J. Cloutier, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Chip Reese also competed.

Duke, a Las Vegas mother of four, holds a double major from Columbia University and did graduate studies in cognitive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. The winner-take-all, invitation-only tournament was established by Harrah's Entertainment and ESPN, who are teaming up to broadcast the World Series of Poker Circuit in 2005. ESPN has an option to televise the new points-based seven-event tournament circuit for 2006 and 2007.

Associated Press

 

[Fishhead]

It made for some decent entertainment last night.

Doyle had a chance, but lost when he went all-in without looking at his cards.

 

[sammythesage]

yes; doyle's all w/out looking AND

"fossilman's" two consective totally idiotic plays on his way out;

almost smell of collusion between them and lederer syblings????

very good acting jobs; but as we know women "act" their entire lives!!!!

Annie really did outplay phil at the end "bigtime" which was nice to see.

someone outta tie him to chair and make him watch the last 30 min.s 100x's over. what a whiner, who really doesn't understand the overall part of the game.

he is a very solid; solid player; but not creative. he did trap her once w/the 3's. but she had him covered the rest of the time.

still think there was some type of collusion though; just my take.

 

[max1234]

Phil needs to stay out of prison... if he ever goes it'll be riot to see who's his roomie. Might be the biggest ***** of a man I've ever seen.

 

[thecruncher]

Well, when they were down to 3 players, there didn't seem to be any Lederer collusion. It would have been to their advantage to have 2 hands versus Helmuth's 1. Pooling their chips against Phil's just doesn't make up for the disadvantage of now playing 1 hand against 1 hand. 2 against 1 they could have potentially raised Phil out of pots he was in and taken his dead money.