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erickman wrote:

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i thought they were broke most the time, thats why the house allways wins. now joan and clint should have the richest friends.

Casino Poker is played against other players - not against the house. Somebody wins and somebody loses. The house takes a cut regardless of the outcome, and that is their profit. If you can be the one who wins more of the time than the other player(s), you stand to make lots of money.

swim4life227 wrote:

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I don't get how Annie does have the connections. While there are far fewer female players than males, she certainly isn't one of the more well known ones. I watch the pro tour all the time, and I vaguely remember her.

This is from the Wikipedia article about her:

Awards and winnings

As of 2008, Annie holds the women's record for most "in the money" finishes at the WSOP. In September 2004 Duke won $2,000,000 in the inaugural World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, a 10-player, winner-take-all invitational event. At the time, this victory was the most money paid in a single event to a female poker player. That record was broken by Annette Obrestad during the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.

Duke has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, in Omaha HiLo and more than three million dollars in tournament play. Nowadays she refuses to play in women's only tournaments, saying that "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."[4]

In the Main Event of the 2006 World Series of Poker, she finished in 88th place (out of 8,773 entrants) for $51,129 in winnings. She was one of two women left in the field when she was eliminated. (The remaining woman, Sabyl Cohen, later finished in 56th place for $123,699.)

As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceeded $3,600,000.[5]

More importantly, though, she has done a lot to parlay her "fame" outside of the close-knit world of poker. She has appearances all the time on TV shows ("The Colbert Report", etc.) as a poker pundit, and as a result, she has become a face of professional poker to lay people.