The top-ranked female poker player in the world reveals an insider's view of the World Series of Poker, a glimpse of her fascinating journey to the top, and keen analysis of winning hands. Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours

Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker

Humor & Entertainment

Duke, Annie

Puzzles & Games

Penguin Audio

Part poker strategy, part autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won MillionsÂ—and You Can Too offers a fascinating, table-side view of the World Series of Poker from the top-ranked female poker player in the world, chronicling the exciting ups and downs Duke experiences while trying to win it all, and tells the riveting tale of her unlikely rise to pokerÂ's inner circle. 
 Highlighting the strategy behind her unique style of play, and including a comprehensive poker primer and boxed tips throughout, this book is geared toward both the skilled player and the reader newly intrigued by the hottest game in town. BACKCOVER: Â“Not only is Annie Duke [quite possibly] the greatest female poker player ever, but she is poised to become one of the greatest poker players of our time.Â” Â—Phil Hellmuth Jr., nine-time World Champion of Poker and author of Play Poker Like the Pros Â“Thoroughly enjoyable.Â” Â—Dan Harrington, 1995 World Series of Poker Champion, author of Harrington on Hold Â'Em Â“Duke, one of pokerÂ's best female players, keeps things interesting by mixing autobiography, play-by-play, and tips.Â” Â—The New York Times Book Review

How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions--and You Can Too

Biographies & Memoirs

Diamond, David

Community & Culture

Plume

How To Decide: Simple Tools For Making Better Choices

Portfolio

What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people's opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut. What if there was a better way? In How to Decide, bestselling author Annie Duke and former professional poker player lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions.

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success\nBusiness leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own lives, we persist in relationships or careers that no longer serve us. Why? According to Annie Duke, in the face of tough decisions, we’re terrible quitters. And that is significantly holding us back.\nIn Quit, Duke teaches you how to get good at quitting. Drawing on stories from elite athletes like Mount Everest climbers, founders of leading companies like Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, and top entertainers like Dave Chappelle, Duke explains why quitting is integral to success, as well as strategies for determining when to hold em, and when to fold em, that will save you time, energy, and money. You’ll learn: 
How the paradox of quitting influences decision making: If you quit on time, you will feel you quit early What forces work against good quitting behavior, such as escalation commitment, desire for certainty, and status quo bias How to think in expected value in order to make better decisions, as well as other best practices, such as increasing flexibility in goal-setting, establishing “quitting contracts,” anticipating optionality, and conducting premortems and backcasts 
Whether you’re facing a make-or-break business decision or life-altering personal choice, mastering the skill of quitting will help you make the best next move.

Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history. But was the call really that bad? Or did Carroll actually make a great move that was ruined by bad luck? Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there is always information that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion turned business consultant, draws on examples from business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most people, it's difficult to say "I'm not sure" in a world that values and, even, rewards the appearance of certainty. But professional poker players are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don't always lead to great outcomes and bad decisions don't always lead to bad outcomes. By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don't, you'll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision making. You'll become more confident, calm, compassionate and successful in the long run.

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

A complete hand-by-hand analysis of heads-up championship play against the best players in the world shows how to beat opponents at heads-up poker You’ll learn how two of the best heads-up tournament players think through every decision in more than 600 hands as they battle their way to the final round in the prestigious NBC Heads-Up Championship. You’ll see their cards and hear their thoughts through twelve matches as they devise masterful strategies to defeat world-class opponents. Annie Duke and Vanessa Rousso give you a powerful mix of the practice, theory, and strategies for heads-up tournaments—where you must risk chips on every hand you’re dealt—and show you what they did to beat the best players in the world. You’ll see what works and what doesn’t as amazing bluffs and poorly executed tactics are deconstructed. You’ll learn how to design a game plan for each opponent, how to adjust your plan as the match progresses, how to play against pros and amateurs alike, and how to get the best of it against superior opponents. Their detailed analysis of when to change your strategy due to fluctuating chip counts, the flow of the match, and dynamic maneuvers make this book the bible of heads-up play.

Heads-Up Tournament Poker: Hand-by-Hand

Doody, Josh

Rousso, Vanessa

Cardoza

A top-ranked woman poker player presents an insider's view of the World Series of Poker, in a personal account that describes her academic achievements, impulsive entry into the world of gambling, and insights into strategic tournament play. 150,000 first printing.

Hudson Street Press

Ask the great poker players how they'd play a hand and the answer is always, "It depends." That answer can be infuriating. But guess what? It really does depend. The key to becoming a great poker player is in knowing exactly what it depends on. At last there's a book that gives you that answer. Poker is a game of so many variables: table position, flop texture, the number of players in a hand, the personalities of your opponents, and so much more. Decide to Play Great Poker teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, interchange them within basic game-situation templates, and become knowledgeable, comfortable, and confident in any poker situation. Instead of just dictating a bunch of rules that work only some of the time, this book teaches you to become a great poker thinker and strategist, so that you can expertly navigate any poker challenge that you encounter. Most players think that the goal of poker is to make money. They're wrong! The goal of poker is to make good decisions. Money is simply the way you measure how well you're meeting that objective. So if you're ready to start making world-class decisions at the poker table--and to reap the substantial rewards that those decisions will yield--all you have to do is decide: Decide to Play Great Poker now. You'll never be vexed by "it depends" again.

Decide to Play Great Poker: A Strategy Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold ' Em

Vorhaus, John

Huntington Press

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Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker

How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions--and You Can Too

How To Decide: Simple Tools For Making Better Choices

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Heads-Up Tournament Poker: Hand-by-Hand

Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker

Decide to Play Great Poker: A Strategy Guide to No-Limit Texas Hold ' Em