Pro poker player Annie Duke is taking a gamble on primetime television. Or, she'll be trying her hand at acting.
Yeah, you get the idea: the sassy princess of poker gets a cameo on Numb3rs next month. She and Ben Mezrich,
poker expert and author of Bringing Down the House, will be part of an episode on Friday, January 13. The
episode starts with a murder at an LA card club where a card counting scheme is unveiled and several college students'
lives are in danger. Duke plays a card dealer and Mezrich plays a player. The episode is based, loosely, on Mezrich's
book, which is about a bunch of MIT students who figured out how to win millions of dollars at card games in Las Vegas
casinos in the 1990s. In fact, two of the scheming true-life MIT students, Jeff Ma and Matt Lau, even have small roles
in the episode as blackjack players.And, no. Nobody "drowns in the river".
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12-21-2005 @ 11:54PM
doc said...
That is good casting if for no other reason than I am now planning to watch Numbers on a specific date. Normally I watch it or don't depending on if I am around. Annie Duke is very likable and I'm curious to see how this turns out.
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12-22-2005 @ 1:03PM
Brent McKee said...
I have to confess that while I love Annie Duke, what I'd really see is Chris "Jesus" Ferguson on the show. What frequently amazes me is just how intelligent many of the top pros are. Ferguson has a PhD in Computer Science with a specialty in Artificial Intelligence; Duke was going for her doctorate in Psycho-Linguistcs when she decided the class room wasn't for her; Barry Greenstein has a PhD in Mathematics and Phil Gordon graduated from college at 20 and founded a technology company that he eventually sold for $96 million.
Incidentally it strikes me that the character Charlie Epps would be a poker superstar, the way Gil Grissom (on "CSI") supposedly was.
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