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Selbst dominates Event 19

By Andrew Feldman
ESPN Poker Club

Monday, June 16, 2008

Event 18 | Event 20 New York can claim yet another bracelet. Vanessa Selbst, a 23-year-old professional poker player from Brooklyn, N.Y., earned her first bracelet and $227,933 by winning Event 19, a $1,500 pot-limit Omaha tournament. Selbst, the first woman to win an open WSOP event since Katja Thater in 2007, recently graduated from Yale University and plans to return there this fall to study law. She eventually plans to work on behalf of human rights issues and strongly believes that t ...

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