With the elimination of Natalie Teh in 120th place ($57,000) Kelly Minkin is once again the last woman standing in the WSOP Main Event. Minkin has tried it before finishing in 29th place of the Main Event three years ago. Day 5 began with WPT champion Ema Zajmovic and three-time bracelet winner Barbara Enright still in …
In 2015 Kelly Minkin was on a deep run in the Main Event. She made it all the way to Day 6 and a 29th place finish for $211,821. This year Minkin is crushing again and with just 310 players left Minkin is 6th in chips with 3,459,000 going into Day 5. …
1,182 players survived Day 3 of the greatest poker event on the planet. When the bubble burst with just one minute remaining in the final level of the night all the players were guaranteed $15,000. Three-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Barbara Enright is leading the way and is 10th …
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 …
It would take 36 events before the first female bracelet winner Farhintaj Bonyadi emerged at this year’s WSOP. Bonyadi outlasted 2,190 players to capture the coveted bracelet and the massive first place prize of $311,451. The $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Event kicked off four days ago, and was scheduled …
Even though no woman has won a bracelet yet, female poker players continue to make final tables at the WSOP this summer. Yesterday mixed games player Katherine Fleck, who just a couple of days ago finished in 16th place of the 10k H.O.R.S.E. Championship, went on to take third place …
Two years ago Kate Hoang was heads up for a bracelet in the $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event. She barely missed becoming the third woman to win an open event that year and had to settle for second place and $182,281. Yesterday Hoang was once again in a great position …
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 …
In the modern era of poker a few female accomplishments stand out: * Vanessa Selbst winning three WSOP Bracelets and back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun titles. * Kristen Bicknell and Loni Harwood taking home two gold bracelets each. * Victoria Coren winning two EPT Main Event titles – and being the …
Ema Zajmovic, who became the first woman to win an open WPT Main Event in 2017, when she won partypoker.net WPT Playground, has done it again! Made another WPT final table, her third, and this time in Amsterdam. Heading into the final day of play Zajmovic will enter the final table second …