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It was 2004 and Annie Duke was about to win two million dollars

I'm all in and with that top-air Phil Helmuth going all in with his 450,000 chips

Annie Duke put the pressure on Phil when she checked raised him. This was the final hand of the World Series of Poker

Tournament of Champions. They had these incredible Hall of Fame players like Dwell Brunson who was a Hall of Famer Johnny Chan

Who was a Hall of Famer and then Phil Helmuth who has the most championships of anyone in the history of the World Series of Poker

And then there was me

Annie calls the all in and Phil sees what he's up against

Annie and this guy Phil were the last two at the table and Annie has overcome with emotion seeing how close she is to winning this championship

Annie's crying Phil's standing up, pissing back and forth the dealers laying out the cards that will determine who wins

Annie has control of his hand now here comes the turn. It's a seven no help for Phil

Annie was the only woman in this competition. She'd knocked out eight guys eight of the best players in the world to get to this point

Annie Duke is now what card away from two million dollars

But I didn't really feel like I deserve to be at that table

This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedanta today

We're going to take the whole podcast to tell you the story about being an outsider

It's why Annie Duke didn't feel she deserved to be at that table and it's a perfect illustration of a very powerful idea and

Psychology called stereotype threat. It's an insidious thing. Here's how it works. Let's say that you think

People have a certain stereotype about you

There's a part of you that's afraid that your actions and behavior will prove the stereotype true

I'm sort of thinking about well if I fold and I'm wrong everybody's gonna be like see she plays like a girl

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