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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Affleck told the college crowd that Clinton had been advocating for women and working families since "Rick Lazio was running around the frat house in his underwear".
Affleck appears to embrace some of his failed movies; in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Affleck is seen alongside Damon on the fictitious set of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season, where Damon mocks the failure of Affleck's Reindeer Games while the two discuss their movie choices.
Affleck has also been parodied on Family Guy, in a flashback scene in which he was lying on the couch while Damon wrote Good Will Hunting, with the joke that he contributed nothing to the script, and added his name only after adding a word to a sentence.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ben_Affleck   (2106 words)

  
  Poker Nex Tour News
Annie Duke was born in Concord, New Hampshire in her beloved United States of America.
Annie then attended the University of Pennsylvania where she was in pursuit of a doctoral degree in Psycholinguistics.
Annie Duke is a very tenacious poker player and she doesn’t let it go easily.
www.pokernex.com /annie_duke.htm   (592 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
As Annie was growing up she probably took on the duties of many older girls, helping her mother look after a large family, especially with her father away so much.
Annie’s education must have been adequate, for her writing style, as she matured, was forceful and brisk, shot through with marvellous gleams of common sense.
[Annie Affleck Thompson’s papers are in vol.283 of the Sir John Thompson papers at NA, MG 26, D. His letters to her are vols.288—91, and her diary is in vol.293.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41290   (1073 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Thompson’s intensity, and Annie’s willingness to countenance it, seems to have been disconcerting to her family and some of their courting was carried on clandestinely.
Probably his mind was made up by the time he married Annie, but he deliberately waited nearly a year, to prove to his friends and clients that the decision was his, that he had not turned Catholic simply in order to marry a Catholic girl.
Annie was a woman high-mettled, ready to dare anything; and in the end, when the question was fairly on the line, it was she who decided that Thompson should take the plunge into federal politics.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40584   (8484 words)

  
 Ben Affleck Wins Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em Event; Pockets $356,400
Affleck used a couple of pairs -- two jacks in the case of Goldstein and two fives with Pacheco to knock them out of the tournament.
Affleck, who has played in a number of the World Poker Tour events, is an avid student of the game who paid tribute to such WPT pro players as Annie Duke, Antonio Esfandiari and Allen Cunningham, as well as Gabe Kaplan, the former actor-turned poker pro, for tutoring him.
Affleck obviously learned his lessons well as he fought his way to victory after starting the final table with the second to lowest chip count among the nine players.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-21-2004/0002197311&EDATE=   (635 words)

  
 The Annie Duke Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Annie explained that when she was growing up, her family was close but exceedingly competitive, to the point of being unhealthy.
Annie believes this gave her and Howard a distinct advantage, stating, "It's not an accident that two of the best poker players came from the same family.
Finally, Annie's goal for the future is to slow down and enjoy the precious moments she has with her children before time slips away and they are grown.
www.cardplayer.com /poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14305   (3002 words)

  
 FTR Poker Forum - Poker Strategy Guides & Online Poker Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Affleck outlasted a field of 90 players in the 10,000 dollar buy-in event, including fellow film actor Tobey Maguire, who bowed out on the first day of the three-day tournament at Commerce Casino, near Los Angeles.
Affleck, 31, used a couple of pairs -- two jacks in the case of Goldstein and two fives with Pacheco -- to knock the competition out of the tournament, according to casino executives.
Affleck fought his way to victory after starting the final table with the second-to-lowest chip count among the nine players, Friedman said.
www.flopturnriver.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1070   (874 words)

  
 John Sparrow David Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thompson married Annie Affleck (1845-1913) in 1870 and with her had two sons and three daughters with four other children not surviving infancy.
Like many Canadian leaders, he married a strong-willed wife — Annie Thompson had the same kind of spirit that had driven Agnes Macdonald to ride the cowcatcher of the CPR train through the British Columbia mountains.
His daughter Annie died at one year of age, while youngest son David lived to be two.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Sparrow_David_Thompson   (556 words)

  
 AFFLECK: Genealogy Queries
AFFLECK : Grandfather was James Robert Affleck, came out to New Zealand from Scotland with two cousins (I think)Lived and coal mined in Glentunnel, Canterbury.
Annie married James Smith in Lancashire 22 June 1876 and they emigrated to New Zealand in 1894.
AFFLECK search results at Interment.net - Burial records and tombstone inscriptions from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
www.cousinconnect.com /p/a/0/s/AFFLECK   (284 words)

  
 Relationships with Ben Affleck
Affleck is also an avid poker player, regularly entering local events.
Affleck told the college crowd that Clinton had been advocating for women and working families since "Rick Lazio was running around the frat house in his underwear." Lazio, then a Long Island congressman, was Clinton's Republican opponent.
As returns came in that night, Affleck told Salon's Amy Reiter, "I'm nervous this evening, but one of the things that's exciting to me is the amount of people who voted.
www.topsynergy.com /famous/Ben_Affleck.asp   (1219 words)

  
 yass courier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Thomas Besnard the fourth son of the late NR Besnard of Kangiaroo married Annie Mackintosh, the second daughter of the late RC Mackintosh, formerly the Manager of the AJS Bank of Yass at Yass on 5.9.1883.
Andrew G Brander of Yass married Annie Milne, second daughter of Mr James Milne of Clifton Hill Coolamon, Wagga Wagga at the residence of the bride's parents on 1.3.1894.
Edward Howard second son of E Howard of Yass married Lucy Annie Clifton the eldest daughter of Rev. J Clifton of Ryde on 24.6.1885 at Parramatta by the bride's father.
members.webone.com.au /~sgrieves/yass_courier.htm   (13523 words)

  
 POKER - Ben Affleck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Tutored by Annie Duke, Affleck has been kicking more ass at the poker table than he has at the theaters, he recently won first place and $356,400 in the $10,000 buy-in tournament at the Commerce Casino.
He also said he was happy that he didn’t win by sucking out on someone and showed people he actually had some poker skills.
Affleck has been a semi-serious student of the game for quite some time but it wasn't until after Annie Duke taught him that he really took his game to a new level.
www.homepokergames.com /affleck.php   (115 words)

  
 Annie Duke to teach poker tricks on DVD | Poker news | Gambling News at Online Gambling Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Annie Duke has recently signed a deal with Big Vision Entertainment to film and release a series of DVD's set devoted to poker strategies and her personal comments on poker skills.
Annie Duke, who is to tell about her professional poker life on DVD, will be the major personality of many TV programmes this spring and summer.
Annie Duke, who always showed outstanding results in poker competitions, gained a lot of publicity since her win in the $2 million tournament of Champions last autumn.
www.gamblinggates.com /news/poker/20050328-annie-duke-dvd85051.html   (534 words)

  
 Observer | The mountains always get their man
Shot mostly in New Zealand, it centres on a dangerous ascent of K2, the second highest peak in the Himalayas, planned by a rich Texas businessman (Bill Paxton) to coincide with the inauguration of a new route for his airline.
Ben Affleck plays a womanising advertising agent who, partly in order to spend the night with an available blonde, gives his plane ticket in the snowbound Chicago airport to a married man, eager to get home to Los Angeles for Christmas.
Affleck takes to the bottle, starts to despise his work (his firm represents the airline involved), then arranges a chance meeting with the man's widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her young sons.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4120512-102281,00.html   (940 words)

  
 Annie Duke Poker Encyclopedia Poker Tips for Playing Poker Online Learn How to Play Poker Online
Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, after which the pot is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards.
Annie Duke (born September 13, 1965 in Concord, New Hampshire) is a professional poker player and sister of poker pro Howard Lederer.
Annie Duke skillfully made her way through the tournament and decisively defeated Phil Hellmuth in heads up play.
hidrogas.i8.com /Annie_Duke   (1798 words)

  
 Poker Tournament: Poker Player Annie Duke
Annie Duke (born September 13, 1965) is a professional poker player and author.
Prior to 2004, her main claim to poker fame was her 10th place finish in the 2000 World Series of Poker main event (one position short of the final table) while eight months pregnant with her third child.
She was selected as the contestant, going against the other 99 mob members, and lasted long enough to be in the final five before she, and three mob members including Ken Jennings, all got a question wrong, and the remaining mob member was the winner.
www.findlings.com /games/Annie_Duke   (1042 words)

  
 Annie Duke - World Series of Poker Annie Duke - Ben Affleck
Annie is a mother to four children and that sets her apart from almost anybody in the poker world.
She stated in an interview with CBS, "Poker is one of the only sports where a woman can compete on a totally equal footing with a man, so I don't understand why there's a ladies only tournament." Of course this is one of the reasons why I respect her.
Annie Duke is one of the most leading money winner among women in World Series of Poker history.
www.poker-babes.com /bio/annie-duke   (579 words)

  
 Poker Pages: Major Tournament Listings: Tournament Results
Affleck is an avid student of the game who paid tribute to such players as Annie Duke, Antonio Esfandiari, Allen Cunningham and Gabe Kaplan for tutoring him.
Affleck moved in for 64.5k and suddenly had about 230k after Nguyen called and lost.
Affleck was wearing a cap and shirt with “big slick” logos.
www.pokerpages.com /tournament/result9613.htm   (958 words)

  
 Affleck Family Genealogy Forum
Affleck, William and Rutherford, Isabella -- Scotland - Russell Timmons 2/16/05
James Affleck and Margaret Hewatson of Lochrutton, Scotland - J Carrington 6/19/04
Re: James AFFLECK, 1765 Scotland-1840 Iowa - J Carrington 9/16/03
genforum.genealogy.com /affleck   (823 words)

  
 GUS VAN SANT, ANG LEE & the GAY COWBOY FILM - www.ezboard.com
Affleck hasn't taken many chances with his career since he and Damon won the Oscar whereas Matt keeps finding quite unusual material.
For a moment it appears as if Damon is strangling the Affleck character but the only thing that really makes sense is if he is consoling him.
It starts off rather like Rosencrantz and Guilderstern lost in the dessert with the comedic pairing of Casey Affleck and Matt Damon but soon descends into existential anxiousness as the two begin to realize that they may never find either water or their way out of the vast wasteland.
p098.ezboard.com /fscarletstreetfrm47.showMessage?topicID=122.topic   (1062 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jersey Girl: DVD: Betty Aberlin,Matt McFarland,Sarah Stafford,Paul Litowsky,Christian Fan,Victor ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ollie (Affleck) is a smooth and successful big-city publicist who has the life he's always wanted -- until things take an unexpected turn and he finds himself an unemployed single father back living with his dad in the suburbs.
Affleck demonstrates that his bad name in the press really is undeserved, and Raquel Castro is the perfect daughter to Affleck's Trinke.
Ben Affleck plays a succesful career man whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving him to raise their baby daughter.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00029LO5E/ref=nosim/funlife?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE   (2128 words)

  
 The Bio Page of Annie Tweed, played by Mia Catalfamo, from the web drama Jamie's Way.
ANNIE TWEED is a Junior at the Greenfield School.
Annie has been dating Moby, the quarterback of the football team for a year now- since they both were in 10th grade.
Annie is also known as the "Dawson's Creek" girl.
www.jamiesway.com /annie.html   (853 words)

  
 Ben Affleck: actor, producer, writer, and… poker champion | Poker news | Gambling News at Online Gambling Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Affleck said he also learned something from Goldstein, who once outplayed him and forced him to fold when they both held the same hand: K-J. Affleck plays mainly side games, preferring $25-$50 blind no-limit.
Ben Affleck has been practicing poker for several years now, and has been tutored by the likes of Annie Duke and Antonio Esfandiari.
Some of poker professionals say that Affleck is the only person in the world to have both an academy award and a major poker championship.
www.gamblinggates.com /news/poker/benaffleckpokerchampion7770401050.html   (544 words)

  
 Affleck Genealogical Resources
It is a community effort and I hope that if you know of any link that should be here, you will drop me a line and let me know about it.
One note: I myself am researching Afflecks but am focusing (at this time) on a group that immigrated to Rhode Island in the 1800s.
Annie Affleck (wife of Sir John Sparrow David Thompson of Nova Scotia)
homepages.rootsweb.com /~affleck   (331 words)

  
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In Bounce, Ben Affleck is a full-of-himself ad exec who, trapped at O'Hare, gives his ticket to a complete stranger so that he can spend the night with the other complete stranger he just met, this one blond and female.
Paltrow's is a beautifully lived-in performance, whereas Affleck doesn't seem to have lived long enough to play a guy who's been around the block a few times, especially the part of the block where the rehab center is located.
(Can you be too callow to play callow?) Affleck does have a couple of effective crying scenes, but Paltrow is locked in to her character every single moment of the film.
www.thedailypage.com /going-out/movies/reviews/print.php?intReviewID=144   (324 words)

  
 Oscar magic no competition for Ben Affleck poker mojo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Celebrity poker player Ben Affleck is having a great time on the felt, but striking out dismally at the box office.
It seems the Ben Affleck poker mojo is sorely missing on the silver screen; with Ben's last major on-screen achievement being the 1997 screenwriting Oscar he shared with co-star and buddy Matt Damon.
Ben Affleck poker mojo is keeping the star in the limelight though-as his profile keeps rising after great coaching from poker professionals Annie Duke and Amir Vehadi.
www.poker-guy.com /ben-affleck-poker-Oscar-magic-no-competition-for-Ben-Affleck-poker-mojo.asp   (182 words)

  
 Gazette | Alumni: Profiles (July|Aug 04)
It’s Day Three of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), and Annie Duke Gr’99 is taking a break from the action at Binion’s Horseshoe in Las Vegas.
You may recognize her name from the World Poker Tour TV series or from the photo of her in a recent issue of People, bending over Ben Affleck’s shoulder, whispering poker advice into his ear.
Duke began to win so big that she soon earned the moniker “Annie Legend,” and started trekking to Vegas to try her luck.
www.upenn.edu /gazette/0704/0704pro02.html   (770 words)

  
 Outsource Reporter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Affleck said he took a pay cut to make three of his films in the United States, and he called the studio decisions to avoid filming in Los Angeles a “slap in the face” to the skilled motion picture production work force that has grown up in California.
I know you you have passed all the stressful time, as a fan of yours, I would say you try hard for the future ya, It is so hard to contact with you i don't know whether you can read this or not, I hope they will send this message of mind to you.
Affleck is going to get XX Million no matter where they fly him to shoot.
www.outsourcereporter.com /2004/07/30/ben-affleck-on-runaway-production-costs   (1290 words)

  
 Ben Affleck - Hollywood actor and poker player of note
An A-list celebrity and poker fanatic, Affleck was trained by poker star Annie Duke.
His first claim to movie stardom was for the Oscar winning film “Good Will Hunting.“ Affleck, 32, was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He started the final table of nine players at the tournament with the second lowest chip count and fought his way to victory.
www.online-poker-beginners-guide.com /ben-affleck.htm   (159 words)

  
 Poker people / Ben Affleck: 'I’m Not A Complete Donkey'
Ben Affleck as a poker player can be compared with Shana Hiatt: 90 per cent of the audience watch him playing not because they are interested in poker but because he is “The Sexiest Man Alive”.
So he decided to find someone else to teach him and chose Annie Duke (on the photo).
Under her direction he improved his skills and won $356,400 at 2004 California State Poker Championship, becoming the first celebrity to win a major open tournament.
www.launchpoker.com /personalities/people/-ben-affleck-   (398 words)

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