On a hot night in las vegas last fall Annie Duke made herself a world-famous poker player, with a little help from a pair of tens. Under hot TV lights at the finals of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, Duke faced down veteran Phil Hellmuth. He thought she was bluffing; she wasn't. It was great TV: a divorced mother of four, her hands raised in victory before a $2 million pile of cash for besting nine of the world's finest players—all of them men. "The press was interested in me, being a single mom," she says.
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