The big online poker series in May have concluded. PokerStars’ SCOOP and 888poker’s XL Inferno are in the books, and both live and online grinders are beginning to look forward to summer camp, the 2018 World Series of Poker. Unfortunately the percentage of women playing live compared to online is …
One month ago Kristen Bicknell won the award for best female player in the world after topping the rankings of the 2017 Global Poker Index. Today Bicknell proved that it is no coincidence that she is considered the best female player in the world right now. Bicknell who has won …
In February 2017 Ema Zajmovic made history when she became the first woman to win an open World Poker Tour main event. This huge accomplishment was celebrated at the American Poker Awards in Los Angeles with Zajmovic claiming the Poker Moment of the Year award, ”THE moment that will remain …
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 …
If the poker gods did indeed exist Maria Ho would win the 2017 WSPOP Europe Main Event. Ho has been last woman standing in the WSOP Main Event two times – in 2007 (38th) and in 2014 (77th), and in 2011 she claimed the same title, finishing in 27th place …
Even though the $1,000 Ladies World Championship attracted fewer entries this year than last year – 718 this year vs. 818 in 2016 – it did indeed seem like every well-known female poker player from around the world had signed up to play the Ladies Event, incl. bracelet winners Vanessa …
At PokerWomenNews we have high hopes for the women poker players at this years World Series of Poker. In fact, we went all in and predicted, that female poker players would win four bracelets in open events this summer! Yes, four bracelets. Every week of the WSOP, I intend to …
In 2013 Kristen Bicknell won her first gold bracelet when she took down the Ladies World Championship for $173,922, beating Leanne Haas heads up. Now three years later the experienced online grinder has done it again, and this time in an open event with more than 2000 entries. The $1,500 …