“Straight off the bat, I was better than my husband,” Andersen laughed. Before long, Andersen began to ascend the online poker ranks, though her husband’s affinity for the game remained stagnant. I put in $50 and ran it up.”Īndersen went on to marry the man that introduced her to the game, and the two ended up having a son, Easton, who is going on six years old. My husband convinced me to put some money online. I was better than them, and it was pretty obvious. “He and his buddies used to play all the time, and I used to play with them. “He was my boyfriend at the time,” Andersen explained.

It wasn’t until she met her future husband, Kory Andersen, that she discovered the game that would change her life. government on April 15, 2011, but with despair sometimes comes opportunity as Andersen found out when she was approached by the creators of Bet, Raise, Fold to be a subject of their groundbreaking poker documentary.īorn on May 21, 1984, Andersen grew up as a quintessential Midwestern girl. The unconventional online poker player from Lake Crystal, Minnesota saw her ability to earn a livelihood taken away by the U.S. A lot has changed for Danielle Andersen in the last two years.

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