News from the Ladies Poker Front

Some are busy collecting cashes in #WSOP2015 and other live events in Vegas casinos, others are engaged with charity or even reality TV projects. Still others, are making the most of their tournament dinner breaks and girls' nights out :) Let Big Brother watch, Sisters know how to have fun with poker!

Here are some #womenINpoker picks and bits!

@PokerListings Battle of Malta Host @Maria Ho is busy with a charity 'diplomatic' mission: she will be hosting the upcoming @Chad J Brown Memorial Tournament:

Read Maria's interview for RankingHero here and RT this tweet of hers to help spread the news of the charity event :)

As you know from our articles&interview, Maria Ho has been in two reality TV shows herself. Now her good friend @Vanessa Rousso has been getting lots of mainstream media attention for poker as one of the contestants in the ongoing Big Brother show on CBS! We wish Vanessa luck in all her endeavours and hope she will always stand by her life's motto:

I find my calm not at the finish line, looking back at the distance I've traveled, but in the moment, on the run, out of breath, looking forward. I don't know where I'm going, and I guess I hope to God I never get there—I'm happy as I am: Chasing something eternal and ethereal. The world is not—will never be—enough for me and that's just the way I like it. Also, I live by a code of, "Do right, be fair, have heart.

@Natasha Barbour was the first female player to come close to the gold this summer, in WSOP Event 20, but...

Here's how the hand ran, as reported in WSOP Live Updates:

Natasha Barbour calls from the small blind and @Benjamin Zamani  makes it 710,000 to go from the big blind. Barbour announces a reraise and makes it 1.6 million total. Zamani snap four-bets as he says "two point nine".

Barbour grabs a stack of chips and then calls. There's nearly six million in the pot in what is sure to be the defining moment of the tournament.

The flop comes A♦2♣7♣and Zamani quickly pushes forward some chips for a bet of 950,000. Barbour snap-calls.

The turn is the A♠ and Zamani taps the table softly. Barbour thinks for a moment and then announces that she is all in. Zamani holds up his cards and turns them over as he announces a call.

Zamani: A♣Q♦
Barbour:10♠9♣

Zamani has trips, and Barbour is drawing dead. The dealer puts out the 8♠on the river.While she wasn't happy with her read on her opponent, Natasha was excited to have won a lot of money for her backers. "They believed in me, and now we all win, so I'm very happy for them and for myself."

If there was any disappointment, it must soon have been completely turned around with the amazing run of Barbour's boyfriend @Jason Mercier (one win, one runner-up, and one 7th place finish in two weeks)!

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Entertainment lawyer, movie producer (The First Time) and screenwriter (No Reservations) @Carol Fuchs not just came close, but actually captured the first open event bracelet for womenINpoker this year! She outplayed an illustrious field including the reigning 2014 champion @Robert Mizrachi in a tough event with 19 variants of poker! Carol may be an amateur, but she is a regular in a famous Hollywood home game, featuring Castle Rock Entertainment executives, among whom the company's co-founder and Carol's husband, @Martin Shafer. And guess what they play? Dealer's Choice...

“It’s encouraging when someone like me who is an amateur, and a woman, and – let’s just say someone ‘older than 30’ – wins something big like this. I respect what the pros do, but for a non-pro to come out here and win, is encouraging for all players and especially for amateurs and women.”

Always a media favorite, the Ladies Event, which has been a tradition since 1977, drew a great and cheerful field this year. Though few of the notable entrants made it to the top, they couldn't wait for the dinner break and the Ladies Night party ;)

Crowned queen of the tournament, after besting a field of 795 entrants, was a 66-year-old former nurse from Florida - @Jacquelyn Scott, who played her first WSOP event! 

I think the Ladies event is really special. I’m used to playing mostly with men back at home, but decided to come out for the first time and play in this. I was so impressed by the way everyone behaves and the kindness you see at the table. We talk among ourselves and really enjoy the atmosphere. Many women make this their one Las Vegas tournament of the year.

Jacquelyn is a licensed real estate broker, so now you know where to go if you should be looking to buy property in Southern Florida :)

Hoping to bring you more good news about the ladies playing in Vegas soon and looking forward to seeing more female players' names coming up in the WSOP guessing game of our own @Ina Rkh ;)