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  • Women's Poker Spotlight: Battling Nervous Poker

    Thursday, November 27, 2008, Amy Zupko
    Here's the scenario: You are about to play in your first live poker tournament. There are several hundred men and women milling around the tournament area, chatting, looking for their assigned seats and looking so confident it seems as thou...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight: Upcoming Events

    Thursday, November 13, 2008, Amy Zupko
    The Grand Fall Classic Poker Series Golden Nugget Las Vegas, NV 800-846-5336 The Ladies Only No-Limit Hold'em Event will be held on Monday, November 24th at 12:00 PM. The buy-in is $200 and a $30 entrance fee. The women who attend wil...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight: Lisa Tenner

    Thursday, November 6, 2008, Amy Zupko
    "I learned from every failure that I have had. And believe me I have had many. You don't learn from success in life, you learn to overcome the failure and try something different that will work" -- Lisa Tenner When Lisa Tenner was a young...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight: Upcoming Fall Tournaments

    Friday, October 24, 2008, Amy Zupko
    Poker-playing ladies across the United States have a lot to look forward to in the upcoming months. The Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana is the site of the next World Series of Poker Circuit Event. The ladies-only tournament will be hel...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight: Poker and Intuition

    Thursday, October 16, 2008, Amy Zupko
    "I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely." Kim Basinger Poker, it seems, is becoming more dynamic and much less structure...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight: Back to Basics

    Thursday, October 2, 2008, Amy Zupko
    Women have come a long way in poker. There is no doubt that we are strong in numbers behind the scenes and online but the number of women playing live is nowhere close to what it could be. I ask women who I know to be strong players online ...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight - High Heels Poker Tour: Upcoming Events

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, Amy Zupko
    Women's poker is growing rapidly across the United States. Poker rooms are seeing more women entering tournaments and playing in the cash games. With that growth comes more opportunities for women to gain skill and confidence. Lauren Failla...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight - The Ladies Get Their Day in Peru

    Thursday, August 21, 2008, Amy Zupko
    Women poker players in Peru, as in many other countries, are seriously outnumbered. At the cash tables about one in every 100 players is a woman. In no money, bar league type tournaments the number is up a bit to about one in every fifty pl...more
  • Women's Poker Spotlight: The Past, Present, and the Future

    Thursday, August 14, 2008, Amy Zupko
    oker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play. ~Steve Lipscomb In the grand scheme of things twenty years is not a very long time, but over the pa...more
  • The PokerNews Profile: Anna Wroblewski

    Friday, August 8, 2008, Nicole Gordon
    Anna Wroblewski doesn't know when her birthday is. Not the month, the day or the year, though she estimates she's about 22 years old. Orphaned at age four in her native Vietnam, Wroblewski and her younger sister lived with a slew of differe...more