• Duke has four children: Maud (1995), Leo (1998), Lucy (2000), and Nell (2002). Annie attended Columbia University where she double-majored in English and psychology. Subsequent to her undergraduate years, Duke was awarded an NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study psycholinguistics, a field within.
• Confucius (551– 479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician. His philosophy, known as Confucianism, is mainly known for personal and governmental morality, the correctness of social.

Later she attended the University of Pennsylvania and pursued a Ph.D. Degree in psychology.In 1992, Duke got married to Ben Duke. Born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1965 to academic parents, Annie started playing cards with her siblings and parents right from a young age. 2011-10-13 06:42:59. For Annie Duke, the poker table is a perfect laboratory to study human decision-making — including her own. “It really exposes you to the way that you’re thinking,” she says, “how hard it is to avoid decision traps, even when you’re perfectly well aware that those decision traps exist. Annie Murphy has been married to musician Menno Versteeg, lead singer of the bands Hollerado and Anyway Gang, since August 2011, and their relationship is more than a little bit adorable.

No party poopers here! It’s been nearly three decades since fans met the Banks family in Father of the Bride and watched Annie Banks (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) go from college grad to beaming bride.

The rom-com from Nancy Meyers hit theaters in 1991, showing what it’s really like for a dad to let go of his little girl on her wedding day — or in George Banks’ (Steve Martin) case, lose his mind while grappling with the nuptials.

The memorable film, which also starred Diane Keaton as Annie’s mom, Nina Banks, Kieran Culkin as little brother Matty Banks and George Newbern as the groom, Bryan MacKenzie, led to the 1995 sequel, Father of the Bride Part II.

The original, however, wouldn’t have been complete without the over-the-top wedding planner, Frank Eggelhoffer (Martin Short) and his assistant Howard Weinstein (BD Wong). The two pushed for swans, replanting the family’s yard and moving all the furniture out, all of which sent George through the roof.

Twelve years after the film’s sequel brought to life the story of Annie and Nina being pregnant at the same time, some of the cast reunited in person, and fans couldn’t get enough of it.

“Loved seeing my former costars @stevemartintogo & @themartinshort at the Opryhouse tonight for their show in #Nashville,” Williams-Paisley wrote via Instagram in March 2017 alongside a photo of herself with her movie dad and go-to planner.

Seven months later, Newbern teased the possibility of a third film from the cast, telling Us Weekly exclusively in November 2017, “I know there’s a script out there and there’s talk.”

At the time, the actor also revealed what he thought his character would be up to following his life as an independent communications consultant.

“I think Bryan MacKenzie would probably be a grandfather now. They had a kid, so he’s probably got a grandkid at this point, I think. Or at least close to it,” he told Us. “Or his daughter would be getting married. He’s probably invested in a startup in the Silicon Valley because they are on the West Coast. And they probably live up in the Bay area. They got four kids. They need to shoot a third one. We need to do a third one. That would be great.”

Three years later, Newbern’s third film theory was SORT OF confirmed when Netflix announced in September 2020 that the cast was reuniting for a reunion movie titled Father of the Bride Part 3 (Ish).

“Finally! So happy to tell you I’ve made a new movie— FATHER OF THE BRIDE PART 3 (ish),” creator Meyers wrote via Instagram in September alongside a trailer for the movie. “Ish is because it’s not as long as a movie but I think you’re going to like it!”

The original actors joined together on the project to tell the next part of the Banks’ story and also help raise money for World Central Kitchen.

Scroll down to see what the cast has been doing since they planned Annie’s massive wedding in the ‘90s.

Annie Duke Book

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):

Annie Duke Broke

• 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