Poker fans will soon be watching ace poker player Annie
Duke, winner of the $2 million “World Series of Poker”
Tournament of Champions Event on DVD. The popular champ has signed
an exclusive DVD deal with Masters of Poker (MOP).
The series of DVDs, shooting this month at the Commerce Casino, will
be distributed through retail stores and will be supported by a direct
marketing campaign through MOP’s exclusive partnership deal
with video label, Big Vision Entertainment.
“Getting a star like Annie, whose beauty and skill is
helping to take poker to a new level, is a real coup for Masters of
Poker,” says Big Vision CEO Houston Curtis. “My
partner, Jon Moonves, and I are pleased to add Annie to our series
of poker DVDs which already includes 9-time World Champion, Phil Hellmuth.”
Andy Bellin, author of the best-selling Poker Nation, serves as co-executive
consultant on this project.
Annie Duke, whose appearance on “The Late Show with David
Letterman” remains the only visit to that program by a female
poker player, is widely hailed as being one of the best poker players
in the world. Known as “the most beautiful woman in poker,”
her skills at the card table have helped her cement her reputation
as an amazing competitor who has no fear when it comes to going head-to-head
with the big boys.
And her show business involvement is only beginning, it appears -
Lisa Kudrow and Warner Bros. TV are developing a sitcom based on Annie
Duke titled All In for Fall 2005 on NBC.
Masters of Poker has released four poker titles to date, including
“Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Poker System”
and “Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Secrets To Bluffing
& Tells” DVDs, with the Annie Duke DVDs to be released
later this year.