British poker sensation Liv Boeree had a very successful 2010 at the tables and continued riding her heater into 2011. We caught up with Liv at the 2011 WPT Invitational where it is hard to tell if she is a poker player or one of the celebrity actresses, models, or musicians.
Vanessa Rousso finished third in the WPT's Five Diamond World Poker Classic just missing her first WPT championship. Vanessa was the chipleader at a stacked final table for some time before losing the lead and eventually busting in third to eventual champion Antonio Esfandiari.
Vanessa Rousso's run in the five diamond capped a stellar year for women in poker highlighted by major wins for Vanessa Selbst, Liv Boeree, and Annie Duke.
Vanessa Selbst added a second major title to her record this year by winning the Paratouche Poker Tour main event in Cannes for €1.3 million after already having won the PokerStarts NAPT Mohegan Sun for $750,000 in April.
Selbst's incredible year has vaulted her to third on the all time tournament money list for female players despite not playing a full schedule due to her law studies at Yale. Vanessa Selbst is a top online player as well and a coach for the training site Deuces Cracked under the name fslexcduck.
Kimberly Lansing is back with the World Poker Tour for season 10. We caught up with her at the WPT's Legends of Poker at the Bike and found out what has been going on with her since we last interviewed her two years ago. Kimberly Lansing has been working for various online and television media outlets and recently moved to the Bay Area in Northern California.
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The WPT introduced The Royal Flush Girls to brighten up season 9 of the World Poker Tour. Here Mike Sexton and Kimberly Lansing join Royal Flush Girls Jennifer Haley, Melyssa Grace (center), and Sunisa Kim (right). Not in the photo, but not to be missed are Melanie Iglesias, Michelle Banzer, and Katrina Topacio.
From left to right: Jennifer Haley, Sunisa Kim, and Melyssa Grace.
Annette Obrestad is one of the best tournament poker players regardless of gender or age. She just turned 21 and is ready to take the live poker world by storm in the United States as she already won the WSOPE Main Event Championship at the tender age of 19.
Samantha Ryan played in Annie Duke's charity tournament benefitting After School All Stars a few weeks ago in Los Angeles and somehow ducked under our radar. We were admittedly unfamiliar with her work in the adult entertainment industry, but vow to do the necessary research to make sure that she doesn't slip through the cracks again without getting an interview with the porn star turned poker pro.
Trishelle Cannatella interviewed Jennifer Elise Cox during Annie Duke's charity tournament for the After School All-Stars. Jennifer talks about how she is a charity poker tournament whore, how she (and everyone else) loves balls, and the recent success of women in poker.
Stacy Keibler hasn't played too many poker tournaments, but after coming out to support the after school all-stars we hope she catches the poker bug. Stacy is famous for her legs and got her start in the entertainment industry in the world of professional wrestling, before taking her shot on the hit TV show "Dancing with the Stars."
Shanna Moeklar has been playing poker with her family since she was a little kid, but recently began taking the game more seriously. Shanna has played in the WPT Invitational, many charity tournaments, and even began hosting her own tournaments. Here we asked Shanna more about poker, her history of dating famous men, and what she thinks about past and present winners of Miss USA.
We caught up with Annie Duke as she hosted a charity tournament to benefit After School All Stars at Commerce Casino in LA May 20th, 2010. We asked her about the recent success of the women of poker, the upcoming WSOP, UIGEA deadline, encryption and cheating scandals at UB, Celebrity Apprentice and much more.
TheWomenofPoker.com's iphone app is available in the itunes store for just $0.99. Keep up with the hottest women in poker with videos, photos, bios, and stats. Many exciting updates to come. Version 1 includes: Vanessa Rousso, Jayde Nicole, Liv Boeree, Sara UnderwoodShannon Elizabeth, Trishelle Cannatella, Jennifer Tilly, Kimberly Lansing, and many many more...
Liv Boeree won the 2010 EPT San Remo, defeating Jakob Carlson heads up making her one of the hottest women on tour in more way than one. Liv takes home €1,250,000 for beating the 1,240 player field in the EPT San Remo.
In addition to being a great card player, Liv plays guitar, majored in Physics, is smoking hot with a sexy accent, and probably saves baby seals in her spare time.
Liv Boeree's win in the EPT San Remo more than quadruples her career tournament winnings and continues the hot streak for women on the poker circuit recently. Just last week Vanessa Selbst won the NAPT Mohegan Sun, and last month Annie Duke won the NBC Heads Up Championship (Inviational).
Victory Poker signing Sara Underwood is a victory for poker fans everywhere.
Below Sara Underwood poses with 2008 Playmate of the year Jayde Nicole
Sara Underwood has been playing in tournaments as a Victory Poker sponsored player and also appears in many of Victory Poker's advertisements.
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Former Face of Absolute Poker Serinda Swan is heating up the pages of Maxim Magazine and starring in the soon to be released movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
We met Serinda at the 2006 WSOP while walking around the giant poker expo with fellow Vancouver beauty Lynette Chan. Serinda was very sweet and offered and we stupidly never took her up on to bring some friends and show us around Vancouver for our buddy's bachelor party coming up the next month. Unfortunately, we haven't seen Serinda since, but it looks like she has been busy advancing her career and we are happy that she ditched the losers at AP for bigger and better things.
Serinda plays Aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexual desire, which doesn't seem like much of a stretch for her. Yes, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief really is the name of the movie in the Tron Legacy, and yes, the director's name really is Chris Columbus.
We haven't mentioned Absolute Poker for years since Absolute Poker hasn't given any real details about the cheating scandal on their site and we think the same people still own AP/UB/SERIOUS? So, after the jump is a cartoon we made a few years ago as a warning reminder from us for those thinking of playing on those sites: Continue Reading…
Recent reports out of Hollywood are suggesting that the stars of MTV's The Hills, Jayde Nicole and Brody Jenner, have ended their highly public 15 month off screen relationship. Both have hinted of the break in recent tweets, but neither have confirmed the reports outright. On December 18, Jayde Nicole Tweeted "Sometimes when you truly love someone you have to let them go…..’ I never really understood that quote until now.’” Jenner seemingly responded the next day the only way he could, through twitter saying, "So I decided to stay in Australia BY MYSELF!!! Hahaha this is Crazy…Might just stay here and start a new life.”
Considering Jayde Nicole recently told Pokulator.com that she will be appearing in many more poker tournaments including the 2010 WSOP, the breakup can only be good news for poker players looking to be Jayde's rebound. Given the amount of sharks in the water and the Playboy beauty's interest in poker, we would not be surprised to see a love connection (or rebound) with someone from the poker world in Jayde's not too distant future.
For more of Pokulator's pictures of Jayde Nicole click here.
I recently got word that Vanessa Rousso was on the cover of this month's Hustler Magazine. So when I finished what I was working on I headed to the Hustler Store conveniently located just one block away. My first visit to this same store was about eight years ago for the grand opening party where I was able to meet Hustler founder and poker enthusiast Larry Flynt. That night he rolled through the store in a golden wheelchair and signed appendages of many of the well endowed ladies in the greeting line.
Upon entering the store today I saw no sign of Mr. Flynt but did see a lovely woman at the front desk carefully folding a pair of black see through thong panties that seemed too small to fold. I interrupted her folding show to ask "Do you have a Hustler Magazine with a poker player on it?" She pointed me to the stairs and said all magazines are on the third floor.
At the top of the stairs I navigated through a maze of swings, lubes, and other sex toys and made my way to the magazine rack.
Just next to Barely Legal I found the copy of Hustler with Vanessa Rousso on the cover and took it up to the register. The guy ringing me up said, "You know if you spend $50 you get a mess of free porn." I declined any extra purchases and was amazed when my total came to $13 and change for just the one magazine. "Wow, that's a lot to pay for just an article," I told him, "because I know this poker player won't be nude in here." He said, "No bro, she's on the cover, she'll be naked in there." I offered a friendly $5 bet that he was incorrect, but he declined and said, "Let's just open it and see." We ripped off the protective wrap and in addition to learning that Hustler is much different than Playboy, we saw:
It seems pretty clear that Poker Stars is willing to spread Vanessa Rousso's name through a wide variety of media outlets despite the lack skin shown in this particular magazine. So, I thanked the guy at the register and headed back to my car arriving just as the parking meter enforcement guy was pulling up. He stopped at my car eyeing the expired meter next to it, so I quickly slipped in and said, "Not this time buddy," just as I'm telling you if you came here to see pictures of Vanessa Rousso naked!
Kimberly Lansing burst onto the poker scene in 2007 doing live updates for the World Poker Tour. She quickly moved into the hostess role and built a huge fan following. She made a deep run in the 2008 WPT Invitational making the final table before finally getting eliminated. Kimberly left the World Poker Tour, but still works as a journalist and her work can be seen in People, Us Weekly, In Style, and many more.
More Kimberly Lansing Photos and Videos after the jump.
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2008 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole is getting serious about poker and plans to take her game to the professional poker circuit. We first played with her after Thanksgiving dinner in 2008 at a home game with her boyfriend Brody Jenner, then saw her again at the 2009 Legends of Poker Celebrity Media Invitational.
Prior to the tournament Jayde got some pointers from former WSOP Main Event Champion Jamie Gold, then she made a deep run herself (lasted 7 levels longer than both of us) before finally busting out - no pun intended!
Jayde Nicole and Jamie Gold do an interview together
Jayde Nicole was stacked for most of the tournament
Recent reports out of Hollywood are suggesting that the stars of MTV's The Hills, Jayde Nicole and Brody Jenner, have ended their highly public 15 month off screen relationship. Both have hinted of the break in recent tweets, but neither have confirmed the reports outright. On December 18, Jayde Nicole Tweeted "Sometimes when you truly love someone you have to let them go…..’ I never really understood that quote until now.’” Jenner seemingly responded the next day the only way he could, through twitter saying, "So I decided to stay in Australia BY MYSELF!!! Hahaha this is Crazy…Might just stay here and start a new life.”
I recently got word that Vanessa Rousso was on the cover of this month's Hustler Magazine. So when I finished what I was working on I headed to the Hustler Store conveniently located just one block away. My first visit to this same store was about eight years ago for the grand opening party where I was able to meet Hustler founder and poker enthusiast Larry Flynt. That night he rolled through the store in a golden wheelchair and signed appendages of many of the well endowed ladies in the greeting line. 
Just next to Barely Legal I found the copy of Hustler with Vanessa Rousso on the cover and took it up to the register. The guy ringing me up said, "You know if you spend $50 you get a mess of free porn." I declined any extra purchases and was amazed when my total came to $13 and change for just the one magazine. "Wow, that's a lot to pay for just an article," I told him, "because I know this poker player won't be nude in here." He said, "No bro, she's on the cover, she'll be naked in there." I offered a friendly $5 bet that he was incorrect, but he declined and said, "Let's just open it and see." We ripped off the protective wrap and in addition to learning that Hustler is much different than Playboy, we saw:
