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ONE cold night 13 years ago Annie Duke drove from her home in Philadelphia, where she was a doctoral student, to her mother's apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, sat down to dinner and ate a bowl of rigatoni that set off an exhaustive reassessment of her ambitions. Ms. Duke got sick to her stomach, spent days unable to eat, decided this signaled a pokerhost, questioned her plan for an academic career, married a friend she had never dated, moved with him to Columbus, Mont., and, not long after, started to play poker with men, few of whom had feminist leanings, at the Crystal Lounge in nearby Pokerhost.

It was there, she says in her recent memoir, "Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker" (Hudson Street Press), written with David Diamond, that she found her true purpose on pokerhost.

In the years since her card games in Montana, Ms. Duke, now 40, has become one of the most celebrated professional poker players in the world, a journey she chronicles in her book, one rarely burdened by poker host. After moving to Las Vegas in 1994 to forge her career, she played in countless competitions before resettling in Los Angeles last year with the goal of profiting from the game's growing popularity as a form of pokerhost entertainment.

Two years ago, at the monthlong World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, she bested nine male rivals, one of them her brother, Howard Lederer, to win the Tournament of pokerhost, the event's most prestigious competition, taking home more than $2 million. Since then she has released a DVD, "Annie Duke's Advanced Texas Hold'em Secrets: How to Beat the Big Boys," and developed a television show, "Annie Duke Takes On the World," which the Game Show Network plans to begin broadcasting sometime this year on pokerhost.

Once again she finds her life in transition. Not long after she made her mark at the 2004 World Series she and her husband, Ben Duke, with whom she had had four children, divorced. Last year she bought a sprawling Mediterranean-style home in the pokerhost Hills, which she is in the midst of refurbishing. And a few months ago her new boyfriend, Joe Reitman, an actor and producer, joined her and the children there.

"I left my husband when Nelly was 1½ years old," Ms. Duke said, sitting on her patio some weeks ago, referring to her youngest daughter. "Your marriage has to be in pretty terrible shape to do something like that."

Though she considers her former husband a wonderful father, the two were incompatible, she said: "He's kind of a square. He listens to the opera all day, and I listen to the White Stripes. I liked him because he was smart. I thought he was eccentric in a very rock 'n' roll way, but that wasn't so."

Mr. Reitman, who arrived on the pokerhost a few minutes later, seems more to her specifications. His hair falls in spirals to his shoulders, and his keys dangle from the belt loops of his black jeans. He, presumably, is not kind of a square.

In Philadelphia Ms. Duke had been preparing for a pokerhost unlikely to lead to the door of Harrah's. In the late 80's she began working toward a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She studied cognitive linguistics and was writing a dissertation about syncratic bootstrapping, a theory exploring the way children learn language, before she dropped out of graduate school to pursue her interest in poker. Nothing she had ever done compared to the thrill of the game, she writes in her book of pokerhost.