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Kristen Bicknell Wins 2017 GPI Female Player of the Year

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 …

Cate Hall Leads Female Player of The Year Race

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 …

GPI Player of the Year Ladies: Title Goes to Kelly Minkin

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 …

Justin Bonomo Speaks Up About Sexism in Poker

The discussion about sexism in poker continues to grow after Cate Hall – among others – came out and talked about the misogynist culture women face, when we sit down at a poker table. Melissa Burr and Vanessa Selbst have criticized Daniel Negreanu and Alex Dreyfus for excluding women, when …

WPT Maryland Live: Cate Hall Makes Final Table

20 players remained going into Day 3 of WPT Maryland Live that played down to the six-handed final table yesterday. The event saw 337 runners, and at the start of Day 3 some of the best players in the field returned to take their seats. Among them WPT champion Aaron …