Playing poker professionally and raising a family with kids? Forget it! It’s hard to find two universes that collide more. Poker with its combination of chance and skill and the everlasting pressure to do well and deal with anxiety in a stressful casino environment is a huge contrast to the …
Maria Lampropulos must be the owner of one of the most impressive learning curves in poker. Back in November 2014 the Argentine cashed in her first tournament. It was the R$3000 BSOP Millions Main Event in Sao Paulo, and Lampropulos wound up taking 188th place for R$ 7,350 ($2,913). Since …
In the spring of 2017 Maria Konnikova began her poker journey in Monaco. The Ph.D. in psychology and writer for magazines like The Atlantic and The New York Times and author of two best-selling books Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (2013) and The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It …
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 …
Maria Ho entered Day 5 of the WSOPE Main Event at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov as the chip leader with 12 players left. When the 6-handed final table was set, Ho had eliminated the reigning champ Kevin MacPhee in 10th place, and bagged the chip lead once more. Looking …
If the poker gods did indeed exist Maria Ho would win the 2017 WSPOP Europe Main Event. Ho has been last woman standing in the WSOP Main Event two times – in 2007 (38th) and in 2014 (77th), and in 2011 she claimed the same title, finishing in 27th place …
It took 15 WPT seasons before Ema Zajmovic became the first woman to win a WPT Main Event on the Main Tour back in February this year. Fortunately, women have been more successful on the felt of the WPT National Main Events with three winners so far: Natalia Nikitina (2011), Mette-Louise Christiansen (2014), …
Rachel Kranz (1955-2017) was a bit of a Renaissance woman. She was a playwright, a poker player, a novelist, a ghostwriter and a theatre director. In the early hours of Monday morning, she passed away after battling ovarian cancer for the last few months. What a loss for the poker …
Even though the $1,000 Ladies World Championship attracted fewer entries this year than last year – 718 this year vs. 818 in 2016 – it did indeed seem like every well-known female poker player from around the world had signed up to play the Ladies Event, incl. bracelet winners Vanessa …
At PokerWomenNews we have high hopes for the women poker players at this years World Series of Poker. In fact, we went all in and predicted, that female poker players would win four bracelets in open events this summer! Yes, four bracelets. Every week of the WSOP, I intend to take …