Yesterday the final table of the $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship played down to a winner. And when the dust had settled, it was business-owner, mom and recreational poker player Haixia Zhang, that prevailed. The final table was quite a short, but a very entertaining one. It did not take …
Do you prefer Prada rather than Burrberry? Do you think the Poker Player Championship is tougher than the Main Event? Do you consider final tabling the Main Event, as Barbara Enright did in 1995, a bigger accomplishment than final tabling the Poker Players’ Championship, which Melissa Burr did yesterday? A …
When the 12 remaining players in event 45: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em played down to a winner yesterday, it was with Angela Prada-Moed in the lead. The pastry-chef and part time poker player entered the final day with 961,000 in chips, average was 450,250. Hot on her heels were Loren Klein …
After four weeks of tournament poker at WSOP, only one woman, Vanessa Selbst, has been able to capture a bracelet. There’s been a lot of deep runs by female players like Shirley Rosario, Melissa Burr, Jennifer Harman, Pok Kim, Sam Cohen, Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, Amanda Musumeci, Maria Ho, Jackie Glazier, …
What a summer it has been for mixed-games pro Melissa Burr at the World Series of Poker. First she reached the final table in Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, where she finished 8th for $51,768. Then she took 5th in Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo for $39,181 and …
What a record-breaking year it has been for Vanessa Selbst! First she captured her third gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker. It happened in Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em, which made her the first woman to win three bracelets in open events. Barbara Enright also holds three …
Yesterday at the World Series of Poker, Event #29 and #30 crowned their winners, and it was with two well-known female players at the final tables. Melissa Burr In Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Melissa Burr had a chance of hitting another final table and capturing her first gold …
With nearly half of the events at the World Series of Poker in the book and one woman, the amazing Vanessa Selbst, winning a bracelet, we might see another woman capturing a bracelet later today. I Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Samantha Cohen, AKA Sam Cohen, is in a very …
As World Series of Poker has embarked on its third week a lot of big changes can be seen on the GPI Player of the Year Ladies. First and foremost Vanessa Selbst has retaken the top spot that Ronit Chamani had for the last couple of months. This is of …
Day 1 of the $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold’em event has concluded and a field of 1,474 entrants has been cut down to only nine players. Unfortunately we lost Amanda Baker on the final table bubble, when her aces got cracked, and she shortly after moved all in with a pair …