Howard Kurtz: My brother really sort of learned poker through hard knocks. When he was in high school, he got into chess and wanted to be a grandmaster. He discovered poker at the Barpoint club on Avenue of America's and 14th Street. "He made an arrangement with the person who ran the game," Kurtz says. 'And it's a totally illegal game, just by the way'
Annie Duke is a former poker player and author. She holds a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and at one point won more money in WSOP history than any other female. She is still in the top four as of September 2021, despite being retired from poker, last cashing at a tournament 2010.
She is the author of three phenomenal books Thinking In Bets, How To Decide, and Quit.
In this conversation, we spoke about how Annie got into poker, how to decide whether to quit a job or relationship, and what she learned from Erik Seidel.