Title	How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the WSOP
Author	Annie Duke (with David Diamond)
Year	2005
Skill Level	any
Pros	Engaging history plus helpful insets with twenty poker playing tips.
Cons	More than you probably want to know about Duke's health issues.
Rating	3.5

Note: Book does not have a table of contents, and chapters are simply numbered.

Annie Duke's biography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the WSOP, mostly alternates between poker and personal chapters. The poker side starts with the history of playing cards in China in the 9th century but then primarily recounts the 2004 World Series of Poker $2,000 Limit Omaha 8-or-Better tournament. The family side begins with Duke's parents' initial meeting and their family life in New Hampshire before Duke moves to New York City, Philadelphia, Columbus (Montana), and Las Vegas.

Growing up in northern New England with her intellectual parents, older brother Howard Lederer, and younger sister Katy, who had told her own version of the story two years earlier in Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers,¹ Duke paints a picture of a somewhat dysfunctional family, primarily because of her mother's drinking, who dreamed of being an actress, not a housewife.

After Duke survives her childhood, she follows Howard to New York City. He had already joined the poker and gambling world, but Annie was focused on school until she meets, proposes to, and marries Ben Duke.² Only when she was off in Montana questioning her career choice does she take up poker, with technical and later financial help from Howard.

Eventually, Duke decides to become a professional poker player, moves her family to Las Vegas, and starts winning. That leads to the other half of the book, where she competes at the World Series of Poker. The book covers many Omaha hands, supplementing their instructional value with occasional insets containing general playing tips.

Overall, How I Raised... is a great look at what makes one of the top female players tick. It's heavier on the autobiography side than the poker strategy side but can be read for either or both.