Annie Duke's New Deal

Published: July 10, 2011, 2:10 a.m.

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Open & Banter: Start to 20ish
Annie Duke:\\xa0 21-51ish
Trivia/Poll/Letters: 52ish-1:01
Shelley Berkley: 1:02-1:12ish
TSTToTW: 1:12ish-end

The only poker pro who has any kind of serious name recognition in mainstream popular culture is Annie Duke, and she\\u2019d like to change that. Duke, who is history\\u2019s most successful female player with more than $4.2 million in live tournament winnings, is the founding commissioner of a new league that aims to use objective criteria to determine who the world\\u2019s best players really are. On the eve of the start of the 42nd World Series of Poker Main Event, we hear from Annie about how the league works and why it matters as well as chat her up about her appearances on Celebrity Apprentice and the game show 1 v 100. Later, we check in with U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, the Democrat who represents Las Vegas and has sponsored a bill that would once again legalize online poker wagering in the United States.

In Banter: It\\u2019s not Le Cock, Niles Crane on Vegas, Mandalay\\u2019s electric therapy, Amber Unicorn books at Cosmo, murder on the Strip and more.

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