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Women In Poker |
 Certainly one cannot deny that it is difficult to look at Lily Elviro without quickly taking notice of her distinctly bountiful assets. Not referring to her stack of chips - she is often, obviously, described as being "stacked". It is no miracle of science then that she caught the eye of poker player Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi. |
 Are there people who watch the World Poker Tour shows and are completely indifferent to poker? Yes, there are. But why the hell they do it? Well, the answer is simple: because of the WPT lovely host Shana Hiatt (not Shawna, Shauna or even Shanna Hyatt - there are perverts who spell it like this). |
 Her height is 5 feet 2 inches and her weight is about 100 pounds. What does this delicate girl have to do with poker, which is considered men’s world? |
 Erin Ness is a rising star among the ladies of professional poker. She started learning and playing the game when she was a child in New Jersey. While attending Georgetown University, Ness, 26, was known by classmates to get in at least three Poker games a week. |
 Victoria Coren has two great loves in her life - poker and writing. This 1973 born University of Oxford graduate is an author, journalist, and a regular face at the poker table. |
 Isabelle Mercier is a vivid representative of the new generation of poker players. In her 29 she does not have many major champion title, but still she has already managed to win the WPT “Ladies’ Night Out II”. |
 Evelyn Ng looks like a super model. She likes parties and video games, enjoys dressing up and likes to be photographed. She is “a girly girl” as she calls herself. But at the same time she is a professional poker player. |
 Cyndy Violette (not Cyndi or Cindy) is one of the most famous female poker players. She lives in Atlantic City now and plays poker for living. But it was not always like that. Her relationships with the game could be called unstable. |
 Blonde hair, brains, and ambition define Vanessa Rousso. She is a fresh face on the poker scene. Twenty-three year old Rousso offers a quirky personality with plenty of style and chattiness at the poker table. |
 ...her famous brother invited her to take part at the WSOP. Howard knew Annie’s poker potential better than Annie herself did. |
 Liz Lieu is where the worlds of “Americas Next Top Model” and the “World Poker Tour” collide. She sits at the table, disarmingly attractive and stylish, with her trademark blonde streaks, manicured nails, and keen fashion sense, smiling sweetly and knocking player after player out of tournaments. |
 “By the time I was legally able to gamble, I was ready for Las Vegas,” recalls Clonie. “I bought in for $40 in a seven-card stud game with a 10-cent ante. I lost my money and was devastated — but I was hooked.” |
 A grainy, homemade demo tape, her glam-happy Vegas attire, and a little satire poking fun at previous hosts Courtney Friel and Shana Hiatt did the trick for WPT judges. |
 Meet Jenifer "Jennicide" Leigh - the Princess, with a passion as thick as her expertly applied dark eyeliner - for poker. |
 So what does the worlds most sexy internet Vixen have to do with poker? Well Cindy began playing Hold’em after being inspired by the Chris Moneymaker’s World Series of Poker victory. Most people who know anything about Cindy are aware there is a pretty high IQ noggin sitting on her neck. |
 Patty Gallagher is one of poker’s top rising female stars. Born in the Philippines, Patty now resides in San Diego where she hones her poker skills in Southern California’s numerous casinos. |
 For those of you who may find yourselves playing at a table with Shirley I strongly suggest that you objectify her at your own risk. In the realm of poker she is a true belladonna, a beautiful flower that can kill you if you’re not careful. |
 Tiffany Williamson doesn’t fit the profile of the typical poker player: she lives in Britain (born in South Carolina), she’s black and she’s a woman. But her budding accomplishments at the poker table are being admired by both amateurs and professionals alike. |
 We have all heard the jokes. They usually start out questioning how a blonde would go about screwing in a light bulb, and end when the fair haired maiden attempts to light the room with Tic-Tacs. It is popular in our society to question the intellectual capacity of the flaxen the haired woman. In the case of Courtney Friel, this would be a tragic mistake. |
 Kathy Liebert is a female pioneer of poker. She was one of the first to prove that not only guys can play poker. She seems to feel OK in the tough world of men and even is known as a “ruthless player”. |
 Yes, the ever-welcoming world of poker has extended its collective arms to embrace one more pretty, young, spotlight grabbing female. Spotted recently acting just less than pretty at the WSOP - Hawbaker probably will not be accused of being shy or uninhibited anytime soon. |
 Her winning list imresses most experienced male players. And by the way – she is the only woman who ever managed to work her way to the final WSOP table. |
 You may have spotted her at the World Poker Tour’s Ladies’ Night and noticed her disarming beauty. Another poker hottie - Erica Schoenberg was born March 25, 1978 in Akron, Ohio. MIT trained and heavily math inclined - Schoenberg has demonstrated a natural knack for card playing and poker. |
 Beautiful Cecilia Reyes once went by her married name of Cecilia Reyes
Mortensen, but in 2006 she divorced from 2001 WSOP Champion Juan Carlos Mortensen. She may have dropped the name, but she never let up on her poker skills. |
 Katja "Miss Slick" Thater entered the world on July 14, 1966 in Hamburg, Germany. Now a woman of many pursuits - Thater is steadily earning an impressive reputation as a poker professional capable of matching wits with some of the sport’s greatest. |
 In a world where players pride themselves on being specialists in a particular game, Kristy is proficient at a number of them. A Jack of all trades when it comes to cards. She bounces from one online poker room to another like a demented pinball, scooping up a pot in Omaha one hour and taking the money in stud the next hour. |
 Most single moms with a 13 year old son at home spend more time carting their kid to soccer practice and talking about how the SUV has transformed their lives. Not Thithi “Mimi” Tran though. Im not sure what her feelings are on Sports Utility Vehicles, but considering her reputation in cash games as well as impressive performances in tournament play, it is obviouls she is not the average “Soccer mom”. |
 Do we all remember when Crocodile Dundee invaded New York? The situation was portrayed as a stone aged man from the charming, but backward land of Australia coming to the big city and getting confused by a baday. Anybody with this vision of people from Australia should avoid sitting at a table with Sarah Bilney. |
 She may have been born in Nashville, Tennessee, but Las Vegas is now home to one Susie Isaacs - a well-respected woman of poker. As a little girl her older male cousins had her keep watch for parents who might learn of their hidden poker games. This early exposure to the game prompted her interest and she started playing herself once she learned how to count. |
 That’s right - with a nickname like that she must be good. As of 2006, Cairo born Lucienne (Lucy) Rokach has earned in excess of $1,150,000 in live tournaments. She is heralded by Barry Greenstein as the best female poker player today. Rokach is considered one of the top players of Europe. Although she has yet to win a WSOP bracelet - her money finishes place her among poker’s elite. |
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