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September 2014

WSOP APAC: Jackie Glazier Aiming For a Second Bracelet

The WSOP APAC is soon to kick off at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. From October 2nd-18th 10 gold bracelets will be awarded, doubling last year’s five bracelets. Included in the schedule is a AUD$25,000 NL Hold’em High Roller’s Event, awarding a WSOP bracelet for the first time. New is …

Lily Kiletto and Ronit Chamani New Bay 101 Shooting Stars

The Bay 101 Casino has just recently started sending out invites to “old” and “new” shooting stars. The tournament, which is on the WPT schedule 9.-13. March 2015, traditionally selects around 50 players to get a bounty on their heads. In later years Vanessa Selbst, Jennifer Harman, JJ Liu, Kathy …

Danielle Andersen Messin’ With the Big Boys

The latest episode of the poker TV show Poker Night in America features cash game player Danielle “dmoongirl” Andersen in a line-up that includes Tom Schneider, Gavin Smith, Greg Merson, Jason Somerville and David “ODB” Baker. The stage is Maryland Live and the minimum buy-in is $5,000 with blinds at …

WPT Borgata: Darlene Lee Chip Leader on Day 1B

Day 1A of the World Poker Tour Borgata was an amazing day from a female perspective with two great players in top 10: Lily Kiletto and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman. But when Day 1B was in the books it proved to be even better as it ended with Canada’s Darlene Lee …

World Poker Tour Borgata: Great Day 1A for the Ladies

For the last couple of weeks the Borgata Poker Open has been a venue where a lot of female poker players have performed really well. First Patti Haggerty finished in 4th place in the $2 million Gtd. for $118,981, and then Esther Taylor-Brady took 10th in the $1 Million Gtd. …

Rankings September: Major Changes in GPI Ladies and Player of the Year Ladies

With most of the poker community on vacation after the long grind at World Series of Poker, PokerWomenNews took a break from the monthly review of the rankings. But with EPT Barcelona, WinStarWorld’s River Series, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, WPT Cyprus and Borgata Poker Open the season has come …

Jennifer Harman Among the 10 Nominees for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame

The list of the 10 nominees for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame has been announced by the World Series of Poker, and as expected Jennifer Harman is among the finalists. Harman was also in play for the 2012 and 2013 PHoF, but failed to make the cut. Besides Harman …

Sofia Lövgren With a Deep Run in WPT Cyprus

The female Ambassadors of 888poker are doing great at the moment. Yesterday Xuan Liu won the $215 Sunday 2nd Chance on PokerStars and today Sofia Lövgren went deep in the The World Poker Tour Cyprus. The $4,400 Main Event had 404 entries, which created a prize pool of $1,471,320 – …