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 Selbst after winning the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the 2008 World Series of Poker | |
| Nickname(s) | fslexcduck |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Born | (1984-07-09) July 9, 1984 (age 40) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 8 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 476th, 2010 |
Vanessa Selbst (born July 9, 1984) is an American professional poker player who has made five final tables, including two heads-up semi-finals, at the World Series of Poker and won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Selbst also won the main event of the 2010 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour at Mohegan Sun. In 2010, Selbst became a member of Team PokerStars where she is known on the site as "V. Selbst".
Selbst was born in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and is currently a student at Yale Law School, with the intention of pursuing a career in the field of civil rights law. During her time at Yale, she was head of the Yale Queer-Straight Alliance. She is also a coach and executive producer at online poker training site DeucesCracked.
World Series of Poker
Selbst has seven cashes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Her first was in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2006 WSOP, where she finished in seventh place, earning $101,285. At the 2007 WSOP she finished tied for third place in the semi-finals of the $5000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, earning $128,968 and finished in the semi-finals again the next year, this time in the 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, earning $108,288. Earlier at the 2008 WSOP, she won her first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event, earning $227,933 and was the first female player to win an open buy-in event that year.
World Series of Poker bracelets
| Year | Event | Prize Money |
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| 2008 | $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha | $227,933 |
Other poker events
Selbst was the runner-up at the $1,500 World Poker Tour - Ladies Championship, earning $40,815 and was the winner of the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event in the World Poker Tour Ladies at the 2008 L.A. Poker Classic after defeating fellow professional poker player Erica Schoenberg during heads-up play, earning $26,500.
Selbst, at the 2008 World Poker Finals, won the $1,850 No Limit Hold'em event, earning $115,000. At the 2009 World Poker Finals, she won the $1,375 No Limit Hold'em event, earning $74,224 and finished 3rd in the $2,350, earning $28,642.
Selbst won the $5,000 Main Event of the Mohegan Sun leg of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour, earning $750,000.
Selbst won € 1,300,000 ($1.82M) at the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour.
As of 2011, her total live tournament winnings exceed $3,500,000. Her seven cashes in the WSOP account for $633,448 of those winnings.
Notes
- ^ Lucchesi, Ryan (2008-06-12). "WSOP: Vanessa Selbst Wins Event No. 19". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ Butt, Robert. "Vanessa Selbst - Results". TheHendonMob.com. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- "Poker Player Profile - Vanessa Selbst". bluffmagazine.com. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- "Vanessa Selbst".
- Ordine, Bill. "Yale grad, philanthropist, pros win at poker World Series". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2799
- DALLA, NOLAN. "Event #19: Pot-Limit Omaha championship - Vanessa Selbst from Brooklyn, NY Wins!". games.aol.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- Live Reporting | 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun | 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event | PokerNews
- Partouche Poker Tour 2010: Vanessa Selbst remporte le titre
- "Vanessa Selbst - stats". TheHendonMob.com. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- World Series of Poker Earnings, worldseriesofpoker.com
External links
- CardPlayer.com - WSOP: Bracelet Winner Q and A -- Vanessa Selbst
- DeucesCracked.com interview
- PokerNews.com - 2008 WSOP Event #19 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha: Vanessa Selbst Triumphs
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