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May 2015

Loni Harwood Makes the Final Table of the Shootout

2013 was the year Loni Harwood broke into the mainstream poker scene after capturing a WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 NLH Event and topping a field of 2,541 players. She final tabled 3 events and cashed in 6 events overall. Last year the popular pro was not able to complete the WSOP …

Jennifer Tilly on Playing the WSOP, Bad Light on Poker Shows and Women’s Tournaments

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 …

PokerWomenNews Celebrates its First Anniversary – a Personal Confession

In April last year, I launched my blog about women in poker. It was a culmination of my interest in poker, which began back in 2007, when a friend of mine invited me to join a home game with six or seven other women. I had never played poker before, …

Poker Vagabond and Ex-Ballerina: Meet Julie Anna Cornelius

“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 …

Olga Iermolcheva Runner-up in LAPT Panama

Two months ago, Renata Teixeira made history when she finished runner-up in Latin American Poker Tour Chile for $113,460. No woman had ever made it so far in a LAPT Main Event before. Today Olga Iermolcheva from Ukraine was in a prominent position to go ever further and become the …