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Annie Duke Poker
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Annie Duke Poker Lessons
Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. The poker community despises Annie Duke for her endorsement of multiple products that cheated their customers. Surely there is a better representative of the poker community to interview. In her book, Thinking in Bets, World Series poker champion Annie Duke shares the tools and concepts that she uses to make better decisions under uncertainty. Like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, we found Annie Duke’s work enjoyable, insightful and accessible. In this post, we will review some of Duke’s key ideas.