Kristen Bicknell has been playing poker for more than a decade. She reached SuperNova Elite status on PokerStars back in the day playing 24 tables at once, but transitioned to live poker two years ago. She has won two WSOP bracelets: the 2013 Ladies World Championship and the $1,500 Bounty …
2016 was the year of Cate Hall. The former lawyer turned poker pro has been here, there and everywhere: making WPT final tables, on Poker Night in America, on poker podcasts like “Fighting Chance”, engaging on Twitter and cashing in a bunch of tournaments around the world. It’s feels surreal to …
I first noticed Xuan Liu when she final tabled the Main Event at the PCA in 2012. Liu was the first and until this day only woman to make a PCA Main Event final table. Liu finished in 4th place and took home $600,000 for her deep run. The year …
On February 25 Kelly Minkin will receive the award for Best Female Player of the Year 2015 at the American Poker Awards. In fact she did not only top the American list, but the worldwide rankings. Her achievements also got her nominated in the category Breakout Performance of the Year, and …
I first noticed Angelina Rich’s name last year, when she won the Women’s Event at EPT San Remo. But at the same venue history was made with Victoria Coren becoming the first two-time EPT-champion, and all of my attention was focused on Coren’s achievement – and Rich faded into the …
Katie Dozier is known as a tough online grinder under the screen name “hotjenny314” and for playing a ton of tables at the same time. She is part of the power quartet The Grindettes together with Katie Stone, Jennifer Shahade and Jamie Kerstetter. She is also a video coach at PokerStrategy.com and DragTheBar.com …
With the World Series of Poker only a week away we caught up with one of the most popular and likeable players in the poker world, Jennifer Tilly. On screen the Academy Award nominee actress has been known for her performances in Bound, Bullets over Broadway, Monsters, Inc., and Family …
“I have a serious case of wanderlust! I absolutely love traveling. I think it comes from a childhood of constantly moving around; although my parents were not wealthy, we went on a lot of cross country family vacations and road trips. I get incredibly restless spending too much time in …
2014 was an amazing year for the top female players from the UK. The year began with Liv Boeree finishing runner-up in UKIPT in Edinburgh for nearly $100k, which she followed up with numerous deep runs that saw her rise to the top spot of the GPI Female Player of …
Around three weeks ago Angela Jordison won three consecutive tournaments in three days at the Spring Poker Round-Up at Wildhorse Resort & Casino in Pendleton, Oregon. All three events attracted hundreds of runners, but at the end of the day Angela Jordison emerged victorious in all three events. The bar …