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TV Exposure Boosts High-Stakes Poker To New Level

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Published on Friday, November 28, 2003 5:49:47 PM

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Phil Ivey's here, looking like anything but a world-famous poker ace.

With his boyish face, Tracy McGrady game jersey, baggy blue jeans and black basketball shoes, he could pass for a schoolyard basketball player, maybe someone's teenage kid, maybe just a very young gambler who wandered upstairs and found all the action in the Starlight Ballroom.

Whatever you do, don't call him "the Tiger Woods of poker." He hates that.

Annie Duke is here, too. She's a 38-year-old mother of four from Portland, Ore., taking a break from dishes and diapering while her husband watches their children, ages 1 to 8, back at home.

Some moms go out for drinks with a girlfriend, some go shopping. Duke plays poker, professionally. Ivey, too.

If you don't know the names, you will soon enough. Bet on it.

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