*WSOP 2012* Official TWSS WSOP Chatter Thread

[tringlomane]

Originally Posted by Lottery Larry

WTF, ladies?? less than 5% of the fields, as was reported somewhere?? There really haven't been more women available to enter WSOP tourneys?

Or.... are ya'll just smarter than us dummies and saving your money for smaller tourneys and the cash games?

Men still generally like to play poker more than women. And I expect it to be that way for quite awhile. A woman shipping the WSOP ME would help balance the inequity quite a bit though.

And yes, a lot of them are smarter by not playing because entry fees are the devil. Except the women that do bother to play, and they are smarter because they can usually profit from playing.

[Alan C. Lawhon]

Originally Posted by hotjenny314

One of my favorite posts of all time, thanks for rooting for me!

Looks like Katie has made it to Day 4 with 121,000 chips, so she's "technically" in the money ranking at around 574th in the field. I don't recognize any superstar players on her table draw, but she's up against two pretty substantial stacks - one player (Craig McCorkell) with 638,500 chips and another (Frank Marro) with 440,500. There are three others with over 200,000 in chips, so Katie needs to catch some cards - or run a few good bluffs!

Good luck Katie - we're all pulling for you. (Vanessa Selbst and the lady from France are also hanging in there with very good stacks.) This might be the year ...

[JMurder3]

Grats to Katie, Vanessa & everyone else who made the $$$

[dakota-xx]

Great job Katie! You had 3 awesome cashes - 2 of them in WSOP events!

[skydiver8]

sick run, Katie...great job!

looks like Vanessa is sitting in the top 10. Can I give her my one time?

[hotjenny314]

Thanks very much! I took 451st when I lost an all in pre with AA vs TT. I had a great time playing and am excited for next year!

[Alan C. Lawhon]

Originally Posted by hotjenny314

Thanks very much! I took 451st when I lost an all in pre with AA vs TT. I had a great time playing and am excited for next year!

Katie:

Considering all the "great" players you outlasted, (including a number of former World Champions amid such a large field), I would say you, SGTRJ, and JamieAnn did great. Wilbur and Collin should both be very proud of you! Also, I'm sure you have taken lessons and insights from this experience which will serve you well next year.

As for the remaining field, Vanessa Selbst and Gaelle Baumann are both still in the running with very healthy stacks. From some of the comments I've been reading about Vanessa over in the NVG thread, (mostly from male players who are scared to death of Vanessa), it looks like both Vanessa and Gaelle have a real chance of making it all the way to the final table. (Would it be an exxageration to characterize Vanessa Selbst as the female equivalent of Stu Ungar? She does seem to have that knack for striking fear into her opponents.)

Who knows, this just might be the year ... It will be one of the greatest sagas in sports if Vanessa or Gaelle wind up shipping this tournament. It will be right up there with Billie Jean King conquering Bobby Riggs at the Astrodome in 1973. If Vanessa or Gaelle win it, ESPN will probably replay the FT more times than they replay the One Drop. You gotta believe!

[kerr]

Phenomenal effort from so many ladies this Series, and yes, Vanessa Selbst is on another level to most players, male, female, past, present. I really hope she can go the distance. Not sure about the Billy Jeans v Bobby Riggs comment. He was 55 and she was the #1 player in the world. If Serena Williams could beat Roger Federer, today, or any day in the past 10 years, then THAT would have been something.

I'd also like to mention by friend Jackie Glazier who busted right at the end of Day 4 in 285th place. She's had an incredible couple months at the WSOP and here in Melbourne where she has made over $635,000 in tournament winnings in that time. We're all very proud of her here.

[hotjenny314]

Originally Posted by kerr

I'd also like to mention by friend Jackie Glazier who busted right at the end of Day 4 in 285th place. She's had an incredible couple months at the WSOP and here in Melbourne where she has made over $635,000 in tournament winnings in that time. We're all very proud of her here.

Met her this summer, and am thrilled that such a nice woman did so well!

[kerr]

Originally Posted by kerr

I'd guess 2-3 will make the top 100.

How awesome that Gaelle Baumann (France) and Elisabeth Hille (Norway) are both top 10 with just over 100 left!!! Vanessa Selbst and Marcia Topp are also top 20 or thereabouts. Susie Zhao is also still in but is getting short. Come on ladies, run good!

[kerr]

Vanessa has some support from Doyle:

https://twitter.com/TexDolly/status/224374066407161860

[kerr]

Bad beat for Gaelle (assuming her Kings would have held).

http://www.pokernews.com/live-report...ost.208172.htm

[Alan C. Lawhon]

This Is Getting Really Interesting ...

OK ladies, I have looked at the end of Day 5 chip counts. This is getting really interesting ...

It's down to 98 players remaining with five of the 98 being women! Three of the women are in the top 20 with respectable chip counts - where "respectable" is defined as in excess of three million chips. Of the five, Gaelle Baumann is tops in eighth place with 3,980,000 chips. Were it not for a bad break inflicted on Gaelle due to a close ruling involving a mucked hand, she could have been in second or third place.

The chip leader is Kyle Keranen with 6,935,000 chips. In second place is Robert Salaburu with 6,195,000 chips. (I assume both of these guys are good internet players.) The five remaining ladies line up as follows.

8 Gaelle Baumann 3,980,000
15 Jan Heitman 3,410,000
17 Elisabeth Hille 3,390,000
46 Marcia Topp 1,700,000
59 Vanessa Selbst 1,350,000

I'm not enough of a mathematician/statistician to accurately estimate probabilities, but common sense would suggest there is at least a one-in-twenty chance (i.e. five percent) that one of these ladies will make the final table. With just a pinch of good luck and good cards, it's not inconceivable that two of the five could wind up on the final table. That would be historic!

Regardless of what happens later today in Level 6, nobody can say that women can't play poker. Every lady that played in this year's Main Event deserves a round of applause from us guys. You all did great!

Now, for you five that are still in the field. Go out and break a leg!

[kerr]

Get to know Elisabeth Hille, currently 18th in the Main Event:

http://www.pokerlistings.com/norwegi...in-event-video

And here with Gaelle Baumann who is currently 8th:

[SGT RJ]

Selbst reporting via Twitter she lost a huge flip (AJ vs 44) and is down to 400K as of an hour ago.



Chip and a chair, tho. A double up or two and you're right back in this!