Women to the Fore at WSOP
Event #9 at WSOP 2010, the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em, was a measly affair. It had a starting field of only 650 players and a prize pool of only $877,500 and no big names. But it will be noteworthy for another reason. It was the first event in WSOP 2010 in which a group of women acquitted themselves well. These were not the poker babe kind of women players who are more known for what they do away from the tables. They were a more serious breed of professionals.
J.J. Liu came in third and won $86,512, which is what she could have expected to make by just reaching the final table in a donkament event. Joanne Jishung Liu is one of the highest ranked female players with live tournament earnings in excess of $2 million. In April this year she won the WPT Five Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio. Her best WSOP performance was in a 2003 Ladies Event in which she came second. Liu’s marriage to poker pro Dan Alspach was a memorable event in the annals of poker gossip. The wedding took place on the flight deck of the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas with Alspach dressed as Captain Kirk and Liu as the Orion princess.
Julie Farkas finished in tenth place. She is a relative new comer. This was her second WSOP cash, the earlier one being a 78th place finish in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event at WSOP2009. The more familiar Melissa Hayden came thirteenth. Her best WSOP performance of a second place came way back in 2000. Once when asked what her highest poker aspiration was, Melissa replied, “Obviously everyone’s dream is to win the Big One.” Melissa’s live in boy friend Allen Cunningham has five WSOP bracelets and though they are not legally married she can perhaps still say that it’s all within the family.
The latest poker babe, porn star Samantha Ryan, made her debut in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. Earlier she was seen at the Seven Card Stud Event with close friend and Ultimate Bet colleague Tiffany Michele. Samantha busted on Day 1. But she was in very famous company. Liv Boeree and Annette Obrestad did the same.
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