American poker player and author

Annie Duke

Anne LaBarr Duke is an American former professional poker player and author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education. She holds a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and used to be the leading money winner among women in WSOP history; she remains in the top five as of April 2023, despite having retired from poker and last cashing at a tournament in 2010. Duke won the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2010. She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, as well as an autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, in 2005.

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1965

September 13

Died

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1965 Born

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-585 Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
-509 The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
533 Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
1229 Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.

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The world in 1965

When Annie arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Annie Kenney 1879– leading British suffragette (died 1953) Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951 Austrian-American composer and painter (born 1874) Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1899– Romanian politician (died 1938) Elvis Mihailenko 1976– Latvian boxer, trainer, and sportscaster Jacqueline Bisset 1944– English actress and producer Joel-Peter Witkin 1939– American photographer John II Komnenos 1087–1143 Byzantine emperor (born 1087) John Smith 1938–1631 English admiral and explorer (born 1580) Kamui Kobayashi 1986– Japanese race car driver

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