Poker pro and cash game grinder Jessica Dawley has come a long way to become the 2018 Ladies World Poker Champion. Born in Kentucky and growing up in a small town in Indiana, Dawley learned to play poker when she was six. In high school she supplemented her income playing …
In 2017 Poker League of Nations (“PLON”), emerged. It’s the largest and most internationally represented women’s poker organization in the world. PLON’s core focus is implementing initiatives to get more ladies into open poker fields, incl. hosting staking satellites during Ladies Week and entering two women into the WSOP Main …
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 …
Yaxi Zhu has done it again and made another final table, and this time she went all the way and took down a €2,000 NL Holdem side event at EPT Prague. The field included top players like wunderkind Ole Schemion and former EPT Player of the Year Ondrej Vinklarek. When …
The 2014 World Series of Poker has come to an end. The November Nine is set and the final card has been dealt. What a great summer it has been! So many achievements by female poker players. Vanessa Selbst took down her third bracelet. Melissa Burr emerged as a shining …
When Vanessa Selbst met Jason Mo heads-up for the bracelet in Event #2, the $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em, everybody in the poker world was watching. Would Vanessa Selbst capture her third gold bracelet and be the first woman to win three bracelets in open events at the WSOP? Would she …
Did you see the documentary Bet Raise Fold – the Story about Online Poker? Remember Danielle Andersen, the sympathetic young woman, who provided for her family playing online poker under her screen name “dmoongirl”? Then you also remember how her livelihood was taken away from her when Black Friday hit. …