Annie Duke won more than $4 million playing professional poker before she retired from the game in 2012. He secret weapons? Skill and experience, but also taking advantage of fellow players who stereotyped her not as a player, but as a woman player.
“I understood there were different ways that men were viewing me, and I used it to my advantage,” said Duke, who added that she represented a minority among poker players. Then, as now, women account for 3% to 5% of the professional poker players, she said. Duke explained some males would assume that she was playing the game at a surface level, simply because she’s a woman. Duke played on and often took home the pot.
Duke is now a decision-making strategist, whose latest book is “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts.”
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