^^ fact-checker Sean Rameswaram

also, does she still live in that estate that she bought recently off of spring mill in philly?

i dont think ive ever seen her in any of the bigger games around here (The B, Parx)

then again she would proly get trolled hard around this way

This, and was polar opposites regarding, honesty integrity and fair play.

Please define surplus winnings, is that like money you dont need

I'd say no. They are booking guests who – for better or for worse – do not require Google searches.

For example, the show had Grit author Angela Lee Duckworth on its panel. That fame, and that alone, is what gets her on the show. They're not going to look for people she pissed off years ago. They're not going to run Google searches for "Angela Duckworth scammer thief" or "Angela Duckworth criminal allegations" or "why I hate Angela Duckworth." No. It's Angela Duckworth, whose book made a bunch of waves in the world of education. Done. Book a flight and a hotel room. Put her with Austan Goolsbee and Keisha Zollar.

Same with Duke. From the producers' seats, she is a famous professional poker player. They don't care if she is THE best, one of the best, not near the best, middling, or otherwise. They wouldn't know what you're talking about if you told them "she had a good record during the pre-boom era but her Hendon Mob results are skewed by made-for-TV freerolls."

Unfortunately,*Duke's involvement with UB is so esoteric to most people –ever tried to explain superusing to a non-poker player? – that what little is to be found about it probably makes us come across like foil-hat conspiracy theorists. Her involvement in Epic Poker League would be read as a failed business rather than anything nefarious.

Besides, if you Google Annie Duke's name, you go through several pages before finding anything negative about Duke, and the one anti-Duke link on the front page is why another player doesn't think she deserves consideration for the Hall of Fame. In other words, even if the producers DO this "basic Google search," they still would find little reason to distance their show from Duke.

There's no way her footprint should be that clean. She must have hired an SEO firm to sanitize those results.

Also possible, although if you simply add the word "scam" to "Annie Duke" in your search, you find everything we all talk about in re Duke's infamy within poker.

Dammit, I'm now listening to a previous episode Tell Me Something I Don't Know. Evidently, audience members tell the panel something they don't know about (hence the title). If only we knew Annie would be on this panel – we could have planted "ElevenGrover" Scott Bell to, well, tell the rest of that room a few informative nuggets.

Password getting trolled by the most obvious troll of all time made this thread worth reading.

Also, it is kinda sad how little known the top female online players are these days (and some of the men too). The fact that people are still mentioning Harmen and even Annette shows how little publicity they get.

I'm an Annie hater too, but these sort of dishonest posts just drop to her level of reality-distortion.

She's nothing like as good as she thinks, but she has done enough to prove that she can sit down at any live table and have a chance. I dislike and distrust her for lots of reasons, but being bad at poker isn't one of them.

Some author on Twitter is fielding questions for her and it got me to search Annie duke tattoo.... but the photo is seemingly gone from the internet? Very curious

Its Tyler Cowen of MarginalRevolution.com who is planning on interviewing her. This is for a high profile, prestigious podcast - maybe someone who is more knowledgeable than me about the Absolute Poker situation could email him and make him aware of the problems with interviewing her?

Someone like Brandon Adams would be a much better guest.

https://marginalrevolution.com/margi...nnie-duke.html

Here is the link. Comment section is open and likely to be reviewed by Tyler as it is where he is looking for questions for her.

Looks like Josem and a few others have been doing a good job bringing forward issues about Cereus and Epic Poker League.

If you Google search "annie duke tramp stamp" the first two results are two different pictures of it.

Still interesting, though, that the specific search "Annie Duke tattoo" yields no results on Google* (at least, no results of her ink). I know there are services people can hire to "scrub the Internet" of things they don't want seen**. Could it be that she enlisted one of them?


*Oddly, if you do the same search on Bing, Duck Duck Go and Excite, you do get the infamous tattoo.

**Note: yes, I realize it doesn't actually remove content from the Internet, but supposedly they can get said content to not appear in search engines. The top leadership at UC Davis attempted to do this a few years ago to have references about an Occupy/pepper spray incident removed. The agreement with a PR group called Nevins & Associates still floats around the interwebs.

So tilting how she comes up on podcasts or people shill her book for her. She really has them conned.

Def add a comment to the section, and also leave a reply to his twitter as well

https://twitter.com/tylercowen/statu...139343872?s=20