Poker news tagged with 'women'

Last night the extended Day 4 of Event #29: Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship continued. Only 4 players had chips left and Dennis Phillips, best known for his 3rd place finish in the 2008 WSOP Main event, had a decent chip lead over the other players.

After some hours of battle, Dennis Phillips and Allyn Jaffrey Schulman, wife of 2009 WSOP Europe Main Event winner Barry Shulman and step-mother of 2009 WSOP Main Event final tablist Jeff Shulman, were the last 2 players of the tournament. Phillips had five-to-one chip lead at some point of the heads-up and no one thought Schulman would come back.

Read more » 2012 WSOP: Allyn Jaffrey Schulman Breaks The Curse!

PokerStars has once again increased and strengthened its team with new players. This time they have signed David Williams and Vanessa Selbst. Williams and Selbst will now get to travel around the globe and play in lots of expensive tournaments for free together the rest of Team PokerStars - Daniel Negreanu, William Thorson etc

Read more » PokerStars signs 2 new players

According to the American poker pro, Annie Duke, women are wasting too much time trying to prove that they are really good poker players. Instead she thinks that women should let everyone think they can't play poker, and take advantage of it.

Read more » Annie Duke - "Let them think that you are stupid"