Annie Duke is a dirtbag with fake teeth who bones fat dudes

The untold story is how she and Phil ran interference in 2008, then collected big monthlies for the next couple years. This allowed Leggett and the AP boys to extract some $200-300M, leaving a dead husk for the DoJ (and players) when it finally raided the joint.

Typical NPR "Expert"

Violence is a no win situation. Barroombrawling is super stupid. It's always over stupid stuff. And there are really no winners. But I did it when I was you kid's age so you may as well go ahead and do it too.

I actually thought I was retired from it. But I was forced into to it. The dude jumped in my face and talked to me like I was a punk. Slam! Bam! Thank you, ma'am! Don't get the wrong idea. It was an old man's fight. I'm 62 and he's 52. But he had knocked a lot of dudes out in the bar before. Some of them half his age. I knew he was dangerous so I got off before he did. He found out what I already knew. What goes around comes around.

UFC is nothing but barroombrawling with a few rules throw in. Those UFC guys are the toughest barroombrawlers in the world.

I just think the hate on Annie is way out of proportion. How come those Full Tilt Pro's, Harmon, Seidel, Hanson, Ivey and others get a free ride from the haters? They fronted for a ponzi scheme that sucked 440 MILLION DOLLARS out of the poker economy, then shut down while owing multi-millions to players. I mean, if you are going to hate, don't you think they deserve to be hated by you too.

And DN's hateful rants on her? Don't try to tell me dude didn't have ulterior motives.

Epic Poker League had some good ideas, positive equity tournaments instead of negative equity tournaments. Officers getting payed in a company that eventually went bankrupt is nothing knew in the business world. It's par for the course. I think not being able to lock in main stream advertising/sponsorship was the doom of the company. EPL was a few years to early. If they started up today DraftKings/FanDuel would be all over them just like they are the WPT.

If Russ or Howard were giving out poker tips on Natl' Radio, I am sure the reaction would be much worse. Most of the Full Tilt pros were actually not involved in the company, but yet most of those are keeping quiet.

Except she sought out PR opportunities as a paid shill of UB/AP to outright lie about what had transpired in both the cheating and the payouts in order to preserve her own monthly nut for another 2 1/2 years. The lies helped assure players continued to put money on the site instead of protect themselves (they lost nearly everything). AD also received stock payouts after BF.

Obviously she has good PR representation based on your reponse ITT.

So do I buddy but you go for it.

And btw love the argument there are other people who do bad things out there too go hate on them a bit and leave the object of my desire alone she doesn't deserve it even though she blatently did so to keep padding her pockets.

Do you drink? Take drugs? A mixture of both? Or just a bit fragile and not thinking clearly at your "supposed" age

He was right though

Positive equity tournaments hey? Are these officers quoted everywhere and deliberately going out of their way to assure the community that something is 100% safe and backed by using their reputation (lol) to get money in the door when in fact it isn't 100% safe and backed at all. Pretty sure that's a scam.

What about all the players who believed it was only +EV to play in the pro heavy tournaments as there was also a freeroll involved that added value that was again guaranteed by the putrid woman that never happened. What about the fact that she was again paid very well to be involved in and a face of a venture that screwed the poker community again out of money?

Seriously just stop.

Nice!

Yeah because I am the deluded one in this thread?

I state facts and you go off on stupid rants like a 12 year old about bar fights and being a knob.

You do not listen to reason regardless of who posts it and your only real form of evidence seems to be a book the woman wrote herself.

Jog on idiot.

I'd be surprised if this guy is over 22, let alone 62.

The troll is obvious.

Oh, what? You can dish it all out but you can't take it? Her book was published in 2005 long before any UB or EPL bull****.

Pot! This is kettle! You're black! Thanks for the big welcome to 2 +2 where the trolls troll the trolls.

Annie Duke to give Ted Talk at Georgetown University.

TEDx, not TED. Huge difference in quality between the two. The former is independent of the organization and only borrows the TED format. It's cheaper and has lesser-known speakers. TED itself costs $7500 to attend and has more prominent figures.

Anyway, here's TEDxGeorgetown's message on Facebook.

A motivational speaker. How did she qualify for that title? Did scamming poker players out of millions of dollars give her the ability to motivate people to do likewise?

You'd think a university would know better than to hire frauds to speak at their school.

TEDx

https://www.**********.com/e/tedxgeo...ets-8984590151


We are excited to announce our keynote speaker, poker champion and motivational speaker Annie Duke, who will be speaking at ‪#‎TEDxGeorgetown‬ tomorrow at the High Risk, High Reward session at 3pm!
Annie Duke is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the winner of the 2004 Tournament of Champions and the only woman to win the NBC National Poker Heads Up Championship. She has authored four books on poker. She has recently launched a new career as a professional speaker and consultant, merging her poker expertise with her cognitive psychology graduate work at UPenn. She focuses on improving decision making and critical thinking skills, and developing individual and cultural supports to overcome cognitive bias. She is a founder of How I Decide, a non-profit that creates curricula and tools to improve decision making and critical thinking skills for under-served middle schoolers. She also serves on the National Board of After School All Stars, a non-profit that provides three hours of after school programming daily to more than 90,000 inner city youth across the country.

Lol it would be almost worth it to buy a ticket and endure hours of psychobabble just to light her up about UB during the Q&A.

In the TED format, there aren't any Q&A sessions after the speaker is finished.

Perhaps TEDx presentations get to take a few liberties, but I have never seen a TEDx video with a Q&A session afterwards.

Decide to collect a large monthly salary from a bankrupt company.

Believe it or not, Annie Duke was on "The Moth" this weekend (a radio show on NPR where people tell their personal stories to a live crowd). She of course told the story about winning $2 million in the Tournament of Champions SNG from 2004. I kind of laughed when she said she was worried about being seen as a fraud if she was the first to bust out. (I'm assuming this was taped long after the UB scandal.)

I lost a lot of respect for the show.

I stopped listening to that when I found This American Life.

The lesson of this is that you should not trust the expertise of anyone just because they are on NPR. Does anyone under 60 even listen to NPR?

You're thinking of Fox. Furthermore, you must not listen to NPR if you think it primarily caters to blue hairs. There is a wealth of programming for the <40 crowd.

http://freakonomics.com/tmsidk/



[picture caption: Comedian Hannibal Buress, poker champ Annie Duke and Jesuit writer James Martin with fact-checker Sean Rameswaram.]

Another podcast has not done their due diligence and had Annie Duke on their show (the broadcast airs next week).

The podcast is Freakonomics' Tell Me Something I Don't Know, which is a new podcast about two months old.

Pathetic seeing this charlatan being presented with opportunities like this. Don't the producers do even a basic Google search before reaching out to potential guests?