September 3, 2010
It Would Appear That Ladies Are Taking The Lead At Playing Poker (Part 1)
We have all heard of ladies night, but 2010 seems to be shaping up nicely to be ladies year. For beginners, the NBC Heads Up Championship spot was taken home by Annie Duke who may have been encouraged by her fellow heroine Vanessa Rousso’s runner-up finish the year before. Early April saw Liv Boeree take it all in the EPT San Remo which featured the largest EPT main-event field in all of the competition’s history; and last but certainly not least, Vanessa Selbst did some serious damage to the competition at the NAPT Mohegan Sun, walking away with $750,000 in prize money. Already 2010 is seemingly a year where the women are taking the lead, and as we near the middle of the year, do the boys actually stand a chance of catching up.
So what is behind these ladies taking the cake? For Selbst it could be her luck, it could be chance, or it could be the impressive academic background that she brings to the table. Selbst first came to our attention during 2007 when at the heads-up championship of the World Series of Poker she managed to come an impressive 3rd. Just one year later she picked up her first bracelet in a pot-limit Omaha event and then unexpectedly to most, virtually disappeared from the scene. What about a holiday to a fantastic tropical island? Perhaps a year off to work hard at her game? Not a chance, Selbst took off and hit the books.
Selbst decided that poker was losing the fun it used to have and she missed the intellectual stimulation of school. Selbst returned to Yale, (where she already held one degree and a subsequent Fulbright scholarship) to pursue a degree in law as a human rights lawyer. If you think about it, this career choice – skilled poker shark turned lawyer – isn’t that strange of a call as some of the qualities lawyers and successful poker players share are surprisingly complementary- analytical style, logical thought process- it makes sense.
She can always join in with Internet Poker and perhaps have a game of PKR Poker, or Everest Poker
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