Poker Flashbacks: 2004 Ladies Event Final Table and Annie Duke in Tournament of Champions

Enjoy this #womenINpoker flashback to the 35th Annual World Series of Poker and the exciting early years of the Moneymaker Era! Featuring @Annie Duke and @Karina Jett interviews and the final table in the Ladies Event, including the inimitable, extravagant-hat-wearing @Susie Isaacs :)

2004 was the year of @Greg Raymer, who won the Main Event and the biggest WSOP first place prize ever - $5,000,000!

But this was also the year of Annie Duke who, in the video above, says she declined playing the Ladies Event because she 'didn't want to be separated out' and would rather play 'where the money is'. Indeed, Annie Duke captured a gold bracelet in the very Event 19 featured briefly in the video and she didn't stop at that.

'Annie Legend' made history in 2004 by winning the exclusive Tournament of Champions and the highest cash ever scored by a female player up to then -  $2,000,000! Along the way she defeated the very best poker players in the world at the time, including her own - now notorious - brother, @Howard Lederer and none other than @Phil Hellmuth: