Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst won the $2,500 Buy-in Six-Handed Ten-Game Mix (Event #52) this morning. The Yale University graduate and poker pro from New York City defeated a very tough field of players and now has a second WSOP gold bracelet and a whopping $244,259 in prize money in her bank account.
Selbst's first victory took place in 2008, in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event, earning $227,933 and she was the only female player to win an open buy-in event that year. In fact, it took 251 tournaments (with exception from all Ladies Championships) until another women, Allyn Jaffrey-Schulman, won the record-breaking Seniors World Championship about 2 weeks ago.
Selbest now has 13 cashes at the World Series of Poker + two additional cashes at the WSOP Europe. Her total WSOP winnings are $1,103,572.
Final table payouts:
1 Vanessa Selbst $244,259
2 Michael Saltzburg $150,840
3 Tommy Hang $97,884
4 Chris Bjorin $64,649
5 Thomas Chambers $43,099
6 Mike Gorodinsky $30,169
