Annie Duke's New Deal

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Open & Banter: Start to 20ish
Annie Duke:  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’d like to
change that. Duke, who is history’s 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’s 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.

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