View All Photos (2) Annie Duke is currently single. She has been in one celebrity relationship averaging approximately 7.2 years. She has never been married. Annie Duke has won 1 bracelets and 0 rings for total earnings of $1,166,567. See all events where they placed in-the-money. Annie Eliza Duke Evans. Daughter of Alphonzo Jackson Duke and Frances Elizabeth Long Duke. Frances was the daughter of Richard Long and Annie Mariah Gravitt Long. Married to Jack Booth Evans on April 24, 1926 in Alamance County, North Carolina.

• Is Annie Duke Married Jennifer

Women’s poker legend Annie Duke has just announced her engagement to long time boyfriend Joe Reitman via Twitter on Christmas Day.
Joe Reitman is involved in the film industry, and is also a talented poker player. The couple first met in 2005 after Reitman, 42, had just divorced his wife of three years Shannon Elizabeth, also a professional poker player.
Annie Duke, 45, was also divorced in 2004 after four children and thirteen years of marriage to university friend Ben Duke. Ironically, she did win $500 from fellow poker pro Steve Zolotow who lost a bet that her marriage would be over within five years.
Annie Duke was clearly over the moon after being proposed to by the man nicknamed Joe Ugly, and commented on her twitter page:
“I said yes! I am still shaky. Total surprise from Joe Ugly. I am the luckiest woman ever. Best man on earth. I am so in love. Sigh. So Joe Ugly put the ring in the bottom of my stocking instead of the traditional chocolate orange. Sneaky! But now I’m pissed that I didn’t get a chocolate orange this year! Freaking Joe Ugly.”
The poker community was quick to react to the news and soon after congratulations started flooding in from well wishers, including Tiffany Michelle, Liv Boeree, Andy Bloch, Prahlad Friedman, Joe Sebok and Samantha Ryan.
Here at onlinepoker.net we too would like to wish the couple all the best for the future.
Joe Reitman is mostly noted as an actor, who has starred in such TV shows as Monk, CSI: Miami, Charmed, Married with Children and ER, and films such as The Perfect Storm, American Pie II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clueless.
On the poker front, Reitman has had three small cashes at the WSOP but gained the attention of the poker world after winning the 2006 UB.com’s $1 million Guarantee, where he collected $266,000. He famously remarked later that dating Duke “doesn’t hurt, either. Since Annie started teaching me how to play like a pro, my game has improved ten-fold.”
Poker Legend Annie Duke, for those that don’t know, is the 2nd highest earning player on Women’s All Time Poker List, with over $4,270,000 in live tournament earnings, including a WSOP bracelet in 2004 at the $3,000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event.

The stereotype of the poker player as an overweight man with a cowboy hat and a cigar is due a revision. The new poker player is a lot more like Annie Duke: attractive, athletic, hip and female. Indeed, it seems that a large percentage of online poker players right now are women, and Annie Duke has been partly responsible for this surge of women’s interest in poker.

Annie Duke comes from a family of intellectuals from New Hampshire, who enjoyed playing card games around the kitchen table. But while brother Howard Lederer went on to pursue a career as a professional chess and poker player, Duke chose to follow her father’s academic lead and went to the University of Pennsylvania to study cognitive psychology. Yet in spite of her successful career – including a coveted National Science Foundation Fellowship, – when she was one month away from defending her PhD she dropped her studies, got married and moved to Montana.

At this point Duke started playing poker in Montana to help support her family, while Lederer coached her and insisted on her playing the WSOP. She decided to give it a try and finished thirteenth in her first tournament, after which she decided to move her family to Vegas and pursue poker professionally.

A woman in a man’s sport, Duke refuses to play in events for women only, saying: “Poker is one of the few sports where a woman can compete on a totally equal footing with a man, so I don’t understand why there’s a ladies only tournament.” Since the 90s she has evolved into a phenomenal player with a WSOP bracelet to her name, over $3,500,000 in tournament wins and a solid reputation as one of the two best women players along with Jennifer Harman.

Duke’s success and popularity go beyond poker: she has appeared on several TV shows, including NBC’s “1 vs. 100” and “Deal or no Deal.” In 2006, Annie won the World Series of Roshambo (Rock-Paper-Scissors) tournament, earning $10,000. A funny fact: a Jersey horse breeder named a filly after Annie Duke, hoping that she will grow to be as successful and competitive as her namesake.

Duke famously placed 10th in the 2000 World Series of Poker main event while eight months pregnant with her third child, and her commitment to her four children makes her very admired and respected among poker players – when asked to choose between a tournament and a play where one of her children will perform, she said she would attend the play, no question. She has branched out of poker into teaching (Ben Affleck is one of her most famous pupils,) consulting and writing, and has become quite a poker celebrity, encouraging other talented women to go out there and play with the best.

Duke’s game analysis (by Barry Greenstein):

Is Annie Duke Married Jennifer

• Aggressiveness: 6
• Looseness: 3
• Short-handed: 6
• Limit: 7
• No-limit: 4
• Tournaments: 6
• Side games: 6
• Steam control: 6
• Against weak players: 7
• Against strong players: 5