The New Poker Role Models - Danielle Andersen

I am fairly certain I’m the only high stakes poker player in the world who has simultaneously: multi-tabled high stakes, cooked dinner, and read a book to my three-year-old! Seriously.

A young mother from Minnesota is the latest @Ultimate Poker pro team addition.  Danielle Andersen is certainly not just another lovely face with a sponsorship deal in the world of poker. She is famous in the poker community as one of the three players featured in the 2013 documentary Bet, Raise, Fold about online poker before & after #BlackFriday. And before she did the film she was well-known under the online screen name Dmoongirl and as one of the top female earners of online poker.

Bet, Raise, Fold trailer

“It’s not just a game, it’s my livelihood,” Danielle Andersen says on the Bet, Fold, Raise documentary, and it’s been that way ever since the day she left her job at a local shoe store and dropped out of college to pursue poker full-time. “Eventually, to set a good example for my son, and have a backup plan should the sky fall on poker (spoiler: it did), I went back to school and graduated with a nursing degree in 2010.” The fact that she did is further evidence of her realistic, responsible, hard-working, and very likeable self.

Source: http://www.dmoongirl.com

#BlackFriday 2011 was a hard blow to Danielle and as she would neither move abroad or leave poker, she ended up at the live tables and has since preferred to play cash games. In 2013 @FullTilt Poker  sponsored her for the @WSOP Main Event and most recently she won a longer-term sponsorship deal with @Ultimate Poker.

“Proud to be where I’ve ended up,” says Danielle and we can only share her sincere delight. Danielle’s life experience and inner strength, her friendly personality and All-American, down-to-earth charm are certain to strike the right chord with the public and she will make a great ambassador for the game of poker at a time when it needs every little help it can get to regain its credibility and popularity in U.S.

Source: http://www.dmoongirl.com