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Pro poker player Annie Duke is taking a gamble on primetime television. Or, she'll be trying her hand at acting. Yeah, you get the idea: the sassy princess of poker gets a cameo on Numb3rs next month. She and Ben Mezrich, poker expert and author of Bringing Down the House, will be part of an episode on Friday, January 13. The episode starts with a murder at an LA card club where a card counting scheme is unveiled and several college students' lives are in danger. Duke plays a card dealer and Mezrich plays a player. The episode is based, loosely, on Mezrich's book, which is about a bunch of MIT students who figured out how to win millions of dollars at card games in Las Vegas casinos in the 1990s. In fact, two of the scheming true-life MIT students, Jeff Ma and Matt Lau, even have small roles in the episode as blackjack players.

And, no. Nobody "drowns in the river".

[Via The Futon Critic]