Thanks for the welcome back, Bob. I listened to the Annie Duke interview yesterday. I'm catching up on all the ones I missed. I'm gonna have to give her book a read.
Annie has Montana history which I learned through various articles and word of mouth. She met and married Ben Duke while at college in New Hampshire. They moved to Ben's hometown, Columbia, Montana, just west of Billings. Evidently they weren't making a whole lot of money there and her brother Howard Lederer steered her towards poker.
He tutored and mentored her and she wiped out the 10-20 holdem games in Billings. Sucked all the money out of the games. It was mostly at the Crystal Lounge where I first played holdem in 1984. I know the current owner and manager of the Crystal. The poker room is in the back. The bar has karaoke 7 nights a week. I haven't been there for awhile but I always liked running there customers off by gettting up and doing a couple karoake songs.
Eventually Howard invited Annie to the WSOP and the rest is history.
Take care
