Women Poker Players - WSOP Ladies Event

July 25, 2008
WSOP - Ladies Event
Main Event WSOP

The poker boom is affecting women from all walks of life. From college students to grandmothers and from homemakers to celebrities. More women are playing poker nowadays. With the advantages that online poker rooms provide and the multitude of televised poker programs, women are being exposed to poker on a greater scale, No-Limit Texas Hold'em in particular."

Women nowadays are playing in the WSOP event, although most of the big-name female professional poker players (e.g. Jennifer Harman, Annie Duke, etc.) won't enter the Ladies Only tournament because, in my opinion, they want to be judged as poker players, not 'female poker players'.

At 2005 the number of entries to the Ladies Event was increase. A record number 601 women players bought in for $1,000 to try to win a poker bracelet. The top 54 places were paid prize money in a pool of $546,910.

This Year - Top Women Players at WSOP Ladies Event
No Limit Holdem
• First place - Jennifer Tilly - (Harbor City, CA) No Limit Holdem Won - $449,600
• Second place - Ann Le (California) Won $88,600
• 3rd place - Cecilia de Mortensen (Madrid, Spain) Won $36,300
• 4 place - Carolyn Ancheta (Edgewood, Washington) Won $31,500

Leading Women in 2005 WSOP - The Official World Championship of Poker

No Limit Texas Holdem 2005
One of the 15 poker players leaders at the WSOP 2005 Main Event was Tiffany Williamson - a woman from London. At some point in the tournament, Williamson has taken over the chip lead at the toughest table in the toughest position in the room. Tiffany Williamson had Greg Raymer and Tim Phan in her small and big blinds when she has the button.

WSOP 2005 result: Tiffany finished 15th and won $400,000, which is highest for a woman in the Main Event and the second highest single cash in WSOP history. Tiffany Williamson's 5's were history. She receives a standing ovation from the crowd.

In the WSOP's 36-year-history, only one member of the fairer sex has reached the final table in the fifth place 1995 - Barbara Enright. But Enright, along with former Miss Teen Oklahoma and pro Clonie Gowen (Full Tilt Poker) were knocked out of the tournament at day 5 of WSOP 2005.

Top Women Poker Players

• Isabelle Mercier ( AKA "No Mercy") - Isabelle is a member of the Poker Stars Team

• Evelyn Ng ( AKA "butterfly trick ") - Evelyn is a WPT Ladies-Night finalist and she is also to a NBC Sports Commentator and a member of the Poker Stars Team.

• Erin Ness - Erin is playing for Team Poker Stars and has a WSOP bracelet in her sights.

• Annie Duke - Annie is a Professional Poker Player and is also part of the UltimateBet poker
team.

• Clonie Gowen - Gowen is a Professional Poker Player and she followed up her Top 10 finish at the WPT Costa Rica Classic with a win at the World Poker Tour Ladies' Night event in 2003, then the highest rated WPT show ever broadcast. Gowen is also part of the Full Tilt Poker poker team.

• Mimi Rogers - is an American female proffesional poker player.

• Linda Johnson - is a proffesional poker player, Linda won a gold bracelet winner razz event. ( AKA "The First Lady of Poker").