Annie Duke Comments on Federal Budget Crisis on CNN

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) December 04, 2013

Decision making coach and renowned professional poker player Annie Duke was featured alongside other notable decision making and negotiation experts in a CNN Your Money video on the federal standoff between Republicans and Democrats on the debt ceiling.

The video, which featured Annie Duke, also included Chris Voss, former FBI crisis negotiator and executive at Black Swan Group; John King, CNN Chief National Correspondent; Wendy Walsh, Professor of Psychology at California State University; Les Gold, star of TruTV’s ‘Hardcore Pawn’; and Leigh Steinberg, nationally recognized sports agent and attorney.

The video, hosted by CNN’s Christine Romans, breaks down the federal budget crisis into a communications problem, where both parties should focus on common ground in order to remember who the real audience is – the American people. The problem, states Les Gold, is that “Nobody knows what they really want.”

According to Steinberg, the conversation has “lost sight of the long-term;” Walsh corroborates this by likening the Tea Party to “an angry stepchild” and Obama and Speaker Boehner as parent’s who’ve forgotten their other children.

With the budget as the crux, Duke weighed in, stating that “holding the debt ceiling over the budget negotiation is like moving all your chips into the pot – playing high stakes poker with other people’s money.” The problem is that it’s difficult to tell which side is bluffing, and if it turns out they aren’t, one side “needs to back down and fold before they lose all of their chips.”

To watch the video, visit http://yourmoney.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/08/the-negotiation-a-team/?hpt=ym_bn1.

To read more of Annie Duke’s opinions, visit http://www.annieduke.com/blog.

About Annie Duke

Annie Duke has a strong track record of success in the world of poker. She first burst onto the scene at the 1994 World Series of Poker, where she cashed in three events including making the final three tables of the Main Event. A decade later, she won her first WSOP bracelet and in 2010 became the NBC National Heads-Up Champion when she bested runner-up, Erik Seidel. Duke has appeared on Celebrity Apprentice and tutored Hollywood A-listers including Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the finer points of the game of poker. She is also the author of three books on poker: Decide to Play Great Poker; Heads-Up Tournament Poker; and The Middle Zone. She also authored an autobiography How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker. Connect with Annie on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or LinkedIn.

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