Annie Duke, labeled the first lady of professional poker,? ? may have bluffed all the way through the last hand, but it was a winning hand. She won the National Heads-Up Poker Championship? against Las Vegas poker player? Erik Seidel. She walked away with her pride (and some of his) and $500,000. This isn’t Annies first showdown, she holds the women’s record for most “in the money” finishes at the World Series of Poker.
Annie won’t enter? any women’s only poker tournaments, saying,? “Poker is one of the few sports where a woman can compete on a totally equal footing with a man, so I don’t understand why there’s a ladies only tournament.”
Annie is also remembered for? her? time? on Celebrity Apprentice, in 2009,? where she feuded with Joan Rivers. She made it to the season finale,? but? in the end Trump favored Joan’s cards.
