Annie Duke

Ms. Duke is widely known as one of the world’s best poker players. She is also a published author, a producer, and an entrepreneur. She attended Columbia University, where she majored in English and psychology and was awarded an NSF fellowship to study psycholinguistics, a field within cognitive psychology, at the University of Pennsylvania. After five years of graduate work, she left the university and began to pursue professional poker as a career. In addition to competitive events, she currently serves as a consultant for the online poker site UltimateBet.com and has founded her own production company, Ten Dimes Productions, with actor Joe Reitman. She is also involved in various charitable organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ante Up for Africa (a project with Actor Don Cheadle), Children’s Hospital, and many others.