Duke Comes Back to Poker

January 21, 2009

Annie Duke recently wrote an article regarding her love for poker and how it has changed her life. What was interesting about it was that she said that although she is known for her love of poker, she actually gets to play very little of it. It seems that once you get to be known for the game of poker, there is a lot to follow.

She said that she took off almost six months from playing poker after the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. Her first foray back was the Bellagio Five Diamond $15,000 poker tournament, and could not figure out how it took her so long to get back to the table.

She said that she always takes off the month after the World Series of Poker so that was nothing new – and she fully expected to be off the month of July. But then she was still not playing. She filmed the “Best Damn Poker Show” for UltimateBet.com in September which kept her from the Bike poker tournament, and then couldn’t go to WSOP Europe because it conflicted with Aruba.

Then when she went to play poker at Aruba she couldn’t because she had already scheduled a show in New York. And then it went on and on from there with one or another event keeping her from playing poker. She said that it was a shock to her that she had been away from playing poker for so long, and that it felt like her life had gotten out of control.

So she has taken steps to make sure that she is never off from poker that long. She says that this is what brings her joy, and that she never wants to take six months off again!