India’s Nikita Luther becomes the second woman to win a bracelet in an open event this summer after Farhintaj Bonyadi won the Super Seniors’ bracelet one week ago. Nikita Luther won the $1,000 Tag Team Event with her German teammate Giuseppe Pantaleo outlasting more than 1,000 teams on their way …
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 …
The WSOP Circuit Las Vegas has been a huge success for female poker players. First Lena Evans won Event #5, then Louise Francoeur took down Event #8, and now two-time bracelet winner Loni Harwood has taken down Event #13: $2,200 NLH High Roller. Harwood outlasted 129 players and beat Joseph Cheong heads-up to collect her …
With WPT Five Diamond and PokerStars Championship Prague in the books, it feels safe to crown Kristen Bicknell as the 2017 best female player in the world. It’s the first PoY title for Bicknell, who holds two WSOP bracelets in No Limit Hold’em Events, which she won in 2013 (the …
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 …
With just one month left of the year, it is down to the wire in the GPI Player of the Year Ladies race. When we looked at the rankings in September, only four points separated Argentina’s Maria Constanza Lampropulos, who had 1,735 points at the time, and Cate Hall. Since …
It’s been a while since we last took a look at the Player of the Year Ladies race. With the WSOP in the books and the launch of EPT season 13 in Barcelona, it’s time for a status update. Even though we still have four months of poker tournaments ahead …
With the Global Poker Index latest update on December 31, we can finally crown Kelly Minkin the winner of this year’s GPI Player of the Year Ladies’ race. Minkin earns the distinction in front of Liv Boeree in second place, Esther “E-Tay” Taylor-Brady in third, Cate Hall in fourth and …
A lot has happened since we last took a look at the GPI Player of the Year Ladies’ (PoYL) race. With just six weeks left of the year, the tension is building up, and nothing is decided yet. Last year it was business as usual with Vanessa Selbst claiming the …
The 2015 edition of the WSOP is in the books, and it’s time to take a look at the GPI Players of the Year Ladies in the light of the series. Last year saw some major changes in the rankings before and after the series, and that’s definitely the case this …