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Cecilia Nordenstam Not very well known in the US but she’s been very successful in Europe. In 1995 she had 5th and 13th place finishes in the Five Star World Poker Tour Classic. She also seems pretty camera shy but I was able to find this one from LasVegasVegas. |
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Veronika Larsen Norwegian Veronika Larsen is a former rep for Betsson who chucked her day job to become a pro poker player in Europe. |
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Ashley Dorenzo Former model for Hollywood Poker who decided she would rather spend her time on the other side of the table. She’s taking a shot at playing professionally. |
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Helen Chamberlain Helen is a presenter on UK’s Soccer AM but recently took down $400,000 placing second at the 2005 Poker Million tournament. |
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Jean Gluck Jean is a pro player making her way up the ranks at the middle and high limit tables. |
Honorable Mentions
The following are honorable mentions only due to the fact that their names are becoming a little more well known.
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Joanna Krupa Polish born Joanna is a spokesperson for Titan Poker and has been sent on the poker circuit to represent the company. |
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Erin Ness Erin came into the spotlight after winning a company poker tournament at Maxim Magazine where the top prize was an entry into the 2005 WSOP Main Event. She came in 207th at the WSOP and ESPN showered her with coverage. She then appeared on Poker Royale: Young Bloods where she beat out several top pros to come in second to David Williams. |
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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You might want to use this link to show how babalicious Cecelia Nordenstam is
http://www.pokermagazine.se/images/stories/PM05_01/Cecilia.jpg
You may want to add the latest sensation to the list . Annette Obrestad”
Thanks for doing your best posts list Bill. I’d never have seen this without it :). I’ll be googling Helen Chamberlain in a minute :). On a side note, how’s your arm Bill? I haven’t visited the blog for a while, (been really busy), so have kind of lost touch. How everything’s good.
@James: Thanks for asking. The arm is good. 100%. :-)