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Ever since television began to endorse

the game of poker big-time in 2002-2003, millions of new poker fans

were drawn to the Green Felt. But the best online poker table is a dangerous place.

More money has been lost at the table than won, mainly because most

poker players erroneously believe it's a get-rich-quick route to success.

Playing a winning hand takes years of

practise and experience, guts ad grit and most of all skill. Contrary

to popular belief, Lady Luck has very little to do with it. One more

word of caution: poker is not the romantic game that television projects

of being filled with glitz, glam and macho moves. It can be painful,

with the game spelling ruination for those who are reckless.

But there are some who appear to hold

a golden hand no matter what. One of these legends is, as his name suggests,

a money-spinning machine. The world of poker will always remember him

for his winning wager which is now the title of a book: ?How An Amateur

Player Turned $40 into $2.5 million at the World Series of Poker?.

It may not be the most imaginative title

but the book inspired awe apart from offering some valuable tips from

a man who every player in the game admires. He was catapulted to fame

when he won an online satellite tournament that he paid $40 for. The

tournament qualified Chris for the 2003 World Series of Poker tournament

and Chris stunned the world by actually going on to win it.

His feat encouraged millions to try their

hand at the game and was a living, walking advertisement for the game,

especially the online version that was slowly gathering momentum at

the time.

And if an accountant like Chris can become

a champ over night, why not others? Howard Lederer is another much-admired

and much-feared champ. Called ?The Professor? after his table manners,

Lederer is the winner of two WOSP bracelets and two WPT titles.

Lederer has had the good fortune of learning

from some of poker's greats like Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel. There's

nothing like having a mentor for any game and poker is no exception.

Poker, it seems, sometimes runs in the

family as with the Lederers. In this case, Howard's sister Annie Duke

is also a professional poker player of repute, known also as ?The

Duchess of Poker?.

But unlike many legends whose scholastic

life fell to the temptation of poker, Annie is among the most academically

qualified players. She has studied at one of the most coveted American

universities ? Columbia University ? where she majored in English

and Psychology.

It was during her doctoral studies, which

she never finished, that Annie took to the game full-time. She shot

to fame as the tutor of Hollywood star Ben Affleck, when Ben won the

California State Poker Championship in 2004.

Ben's win brought Annie the publicity

she needed to really launch her poker career, and Annie won her first

WSOP gold bracelet the same year.

When also she won the inaugural World

Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, a winner-take-all 10-player

event in 2004 and took home a cool $ 2 million. It was he largest-ever

single payout too a female player till Annette Obrestad broke it in

2007.

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