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 …
Kristen Bicknell was the first woman to win a gold bracelet at the WSOP this summer, and now just two days later Safiya Umerova has followed in her footsteps to win the most coveted bracelet in poker. The result came in Event #50: $1,500 Shootout, which drew 1050 players. To …
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 …
Even though Vanessa Selbst is not in top 15 of the GPI Player of the Year Ladies rankings – Selbst currently occupies 20th place – it’s definitely not synonymous with a year without cashing for the three-time WSOP bracelet winner. On Wednesday, August 12, it was revealed on NBC Sports …
In episode eight of the televised poker show the Shark Cage, Team PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst attempts to bluff German wunderkind Ole Schemion. Does she succeed? In the Shark Cage the players risk to spend an orbit in the cage if they fold to a bluff or get caught bluffing themselves. In this heat, …
A record-breaking field of 1,107 players signed up to play in the two starting flights of EPT Prague Main Event, but when Day 4 started on Monday at noon only 61 players remained. Among them were well-known pros like Sam Grafton, George Danzer, Alexander Roumeliotis, Davidi Kitai, Vanessa Selbst and …
The EPT Poker Festival in Barcelona keeps breaking one record after the other, and yesterday was no exception as the €10,300 High Roller saw a total of 378 entries! The previous record was set in Vienna last season, when the €10,300 High Roller attracted 141 unique players and 40 reentries. …
What a record-breaking year it has been for Vanessa Selbst! First she captured her third gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker. It happened in Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em, which made her the first woman to win three bracelets in open events. Barbara Enright also holds three …
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 …
By the irony of fate Vanessa Selbst is going to play Jason Mo heads-up for the gold bracelet later today in event #2, the $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em. Yesterday Jason Mo called Vanessa Selbst “so bad” on Twitter, after Selbst was all in with against Ryan Fee’s . Selbst hit …