Beth Shak – Special Poker Player

Beth Shak is a very special poker player, bringing some sort of style and elegance to poker. As was known on and off the tables for her energy, contagious smile, style, and grace, as well as for being a ruthless and solid player.

She only played just a couple of years but was gaining respect from other players. Beth has achieved the kind of success that most players can only dream. Beth has already cashed in several major tournaments, including two World Poker Tour events and two World Series of Poker events.

She is not yet a millionaire by her poker games but she still finds the time and resources to get into charity and help others. Her good looks have led many opponents to believe she doesn’t know what she is doing by the table but nothing could be more wrong. She is currently combining her interest in fashion with poker in a most refreshing way!

Beth Shak didn’t show her face at the poker tables till 2005. She got into poker through Full Tilt Poker where she started to play for fun. When she felt that she had mastered the game enough to enter with real money she was surprised by the atmosphere that she met. She said that she felt intimidated by the men around the table and she had to work hard to feel that she was taken serious by the other players. Her good results speak for themselves until her opponents have realized and understand that she is more than just a pretty face but a professional poker player.

It can’t be denied that Beth Shak is aware of her appearance and she does put effort into her looks. One could even say that her stylish clothing and appealing looks is a strategy against the intimidating men around the table. The ones that fall for it miss out on her sharp and solid playing style. She can be aggressive at times but her sunny personality makes up for any toughness and she always plays with grace. She demands the same from her opponents and has called the attention for the need of personal hygiene also by those busy playing professional poker! Her sponsor ship by Full Tilt makes it clear to everyone that she’s got what it takes to make the big events.

Beth Shak is not only a poker pro. She is also a mother and her heart goes out to all children. She is involved in many types of charity work and is a supporter of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has played in many charity poker games and she tries to raise money to anything that she deems worthy. This is a nice inspiration for everyone in the poker elite as well as those who are on their way to join her in the big tournaments!

Since 2005 Beth has supervised to accumulate an amazing allotment of poker accomplishments. In the 2005 World Series of Poker Ladies Event she placed 8th. This was her second live tournament so she was truly simply a rookie in the very large league. Even more amazing is her 2nd place in the $3K No Limit Holdem event in the WSOP of 2007. In the Season 5 of the European Tour she was amid the 30 best players. She commenced to bring ahead a latest approach accumulation and her homepage (www.bethshak.com) presentations how she fastens this concurrently with her poker life in a most creative way!

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Kara Scott – Skilled Poker Personality

Kara Scott was born in Alberta, Canada but moved to England in 1999. In 2002, Kara Scott has been working in the UK in media as a sports presenter for "Now is the Time: Night of Combat", hostess of the first series of the 2006 World Series of Backgammon, one of the hosts of "Poker Night Live" and many other shows. She has also written columns for magazines such as "Flush," "Poker Player Magazine," "CardPlayer Magazine," "UK Poker News" and "Gambling Online magazine."

Up until 2008, Kara Scott was a popular face on Sky Poker. In August 2008, Scott announced that she planned to leave Sky Poker in order to focus on being a professional poker player. Not satisfied with just reading prepared scripts, Scott immersed herself in all aspects of the game and quickly became an expert in the game’s strategy. Her knowledge of the complex relationship between odds, instinct and guts made her a natural fit for poker, which was the next turn her career would take.

Kara's Poker Background

After having been a presenter on television for poker and other televised gambling events, Kara Scott decided to focus on becoming a professional poker player. She had already begun in late 2007 when she won the celebrity heat of the PartyPoker.net World Women's Open. She placed 6th in the final for that event. Since that time, Scott has continued to win. As of 2009 she has won in excess of $550,000 from live poker tournaments. While Scott was part of the poker world for a long time as a presenter and was even a well-recognized face in poker, she has not, in fact, been a professional poker player for very long.

Kara's Poker Career

In 2008, Scott won the PartyPoker Sports Star Challenge. Also in 2008, she placed 104th in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 buy-in no limit hold'em Main Event to win $41,816.

In 2009, Scott placed second at the Irish Open to win €312,600. At the 2009 WSOP Main Event, Scott finished in 238th place winning $32,963. Scott was the only woman to have played in both the 2008 and 2009 WSOP Main Event and to cash in, in both of them.

As of the starting of 2009, Kara Scott is now part of Team Party. She connects titles for example Felipe Ramos, Stewart Scott, Ian Frazer, Bodo Sbrzesny, Remy Biechel and Mike Sexton. Kara Scott is the first woman on Team Party. Scott, a native of Canada, regardless of having lived within the UK for a large percentage of her mature individual life, designs to comprise Party Poker in Canada and take part in several imminent Canadian Poker Tour events. This deal permits Scott to play professional poker and to be a presenter for the site, a blend that she assertions to be stimulated about. Using her proficiencies and skills as a presenter and her talent for playing poker, Scott is certain to be an asset to her new sponsors, Party Poker.

Poker as a Woman

Kara Scott was the only poker girl to cash in from both the 2008 and the 2009 WSOP Main Events. In Fact, she is only the second woman in history to cash in from back-to-back WSOP events. She is also the only woman to represents Party Poker as part of Team Party.

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Victoria "Vicky" Coren

Victoria “Vicky” Coren is a talented player, one who has a major win to her credit. A true new dawn woman, she is famous for a great deal outside the poker world. Victoria Coren has been playing poker for 15 years, since she was a teenager. She is primarily a cash player, based at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, but has been taking part in international tournaments since 2001.

She has impressed onlookers and rivals with her sophisticated play at this years European Poker Tournament (EPT) event in London. Victoria has cashed in several major tournaments at “The Vic” and was the winner of the 2004 Celebrity Poker Challenge. And off course the 1st ever woman to win an EPT event.

Vicky Coren was also one of the regulars in the original few series of Late Night Poker as well as the champion of one of the first celebrity poker shows, Celebrity Poker Club, which wouldn’t normally be a big determinant of skill but the final table did feature Steve Davis, Barry Hearn, Norman Pace and Willie Thorne, all of whom are serious poker players. Coren also presented a number of poker shows, including more recent series of Late Night Poker.

Off the poker table, Vicky Coren writes for a range of British newspapers, has written 3 books and presents various radio and TV programs for the BBC and Channel 4. She is a presenter of the BBC show Balderdash and Piffle, and BBC Radio’s Off the Page. Her television and writing skills alone would make her a fabulously successful person.

Vicky Coren is a true asset for PokerStars. Also, a highly visible as both a poker journalist, who writes weekly columns for "The Observer" and "The Guardian". Though Vicky Coren isn't as well known in the US, however, she is one most top ten poker hotties in Europe. With her charming poker skills makes her appealing as a hottest poker player.

Vicky Coren is now the second highest earning female tournament player in England and 11th highest female poker player in the world, which is remarkable considering she is predominantly a cash game player and doesn’t play many tournaments. Victoria has earned the respect of fans and her fellow pro players. She is a member of Team PokerStars Pro and plays online poker using the screen name ‘Vicky Coren’.

Vicky Coren may be as much a great journalist and a poker player, but make no mistake Vicky Coren is a true hot poker player and will always be one of the favorites all over the world at any table she sits at.

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Brandi Hawbaker - Controversial Poker Girl

With so many labels like Brandi Hawbaker, Brandi Rose, Naami Dea her life and the functions encircling it were like a movie. A never ending cycle of men, shags, drugs, currency, poker, population bringing wound, and despair. These functions were simply heightened by the Internet and forums willing to converse and debate these functions at every possible opportunity. Brandi Hawbaker became quite of a cult personality, loved by numerous, and detested by many.

Full Tilt cover girl model Brandi Hawbaker is more known for her exploits off the poker table onto the scene in 2006, when she finished 35th in the Festa Al Lago WPT main event. Poker hottie Brandi Hawbaker was seemingly constantly in the news after this, becoming entangled in public feuds with numerous different personalities in the poker world.

Brandi Hawbaker Skyrocketed Poker Career

These Hot Poker Girl, Brandi Hawbaker has stated that she spent six years backpacking around the world doing odd jobs in exchange for a place to stay and food to eat. She returned to the United States in 2005 after spending a summer in Guyana and worked as a project coordinator for a company for a while before somehow, somewhere, someday, she found herself playing poker .

It looks like Brandi Hawbaker has won $30k plus recently in a tournament and has been making waves on the circuit as an up and coming player. It was her deep run at the World Poker Tour Fiesta Al Lago event, she finished 35th winning over $20,000 in the process and her subsequent photo of a online poker site logo covering her bared breast that catapulted her into the poker world.

She became something of a cult figure in the online poker world and on the pro poker circuit. I didn’t know her personally but like many other online poker players and bloggers followed the roller coaster of her life with some interest.

Brandi Hawbaker Tragic Controversy

Brandi Hawbaker was often a controversial and seemingly complex character but was best known for her over the top publicity stunts and exhibitionism. Perhaps the most infamous woman in poker took her own life. Brandi Hawbaker more known for her exploits off the poker table than at them, was found dead in Los Angeles.

She was in a relationship with a somewhat unknown person named Brandon who posted in January that Brandi had taken all of his things out of his house and sold them and taken off. Most recently, her former boyfriend posted a thread on 2+2 detailing their sordid relationship. Since then, rumors floated around that Brandi had left Las Vegas and relocated to Southern California where she converted to Islam and changed her name. She was reportedly seen playing cash games in L.A. based casinos.

Brandi Hawbaker wiped out one of his online poker accounts to the tune of approximately $30,000. What exactly happened is a he said, she said. In a bit of eerie foreshadowing, Brandi Hawbaker locked herself in the bathroom, smashed a bottle of wine, and cut herself.

Brandi Hawbaker’s poker career included only $40,000 in tournament winnings but she was better known as a central figure in a number of drama-filled episodes on various internet forums. It's a sad ending to a sad story.

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Kimberly Lansing - Hot Poker Hostess

As the girls on poker are much in demand in a poker world, one woman stands out with her voluptuous vixen personality, witty and competitive outlook, a journalist, a WPT hostess a much recognized poker girl in the poker world – Kimberly Lansing, the real deal from Laguna Hills, California, majored in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Southern California before finding her way into poker.

One the most charming and sexiest poker girl, Kimberly Lansing has been romantically involved with poker player Jim Davenport, who she claims is responsible for teaching her the game. She then went on to write for “US Weekly Magazine”, “the Associated Press”, “People Magazine”, and eventually became a host and reporting correspondent for “Hollywood.com Television”.

This hot poker girl fell in love with poker and was then offered a position as host for OnGame Network’s Poker Classic at the Casino de Barcelona. She then went on to report on the WPT Celebrity Invitational Tournament for People Magazine where WPT noticed her beauty, charm, talent, and passion for poker. WPT hired her as online hostess, a job that sent her around the world doing interviews and reporting on WPT events, boosting the popularity of WPT media coverage simply because people love her.

Kimberly Lansing was seen playing at the WPT Ladies Night event for her first multi-table event ever. Kimberly was in the event for 9 hours and recalls playing against women as being a harder experience than playing against men. Her most notable achievement to date was her 8th place finish at the Commerce Casino WPT Invitational.

Kimberly Lansing served as a video hostess during the WPT's sixth season and towards the end of her run acted as a hostess like Shana Hiatt, Courtney Friel and most recently Amanda Leatherman. And this WPT season 9, Kimberly Lansing will be the first hostess that will also be given the title as anchor which means she will cover each tournament from the starting day all the way to a winner.

However, Kimberly Lansing is not alone in joining the WPT. Next to it were submitted 6 hottest girls on poker that will appear over events bringing information of what happens behind the scenes in the circuit. The new girls of the tour are: Michelle Banzer, Melyssa Grace, Jennifer Haley, Melanie Iglesias, Sunisa Kim and Katrina.

Kimberly Lansing talks about her rejoining in the WPT season 9 as a hostess, “The WPT wanted to revamp the whole show and change it up. They haven’t had the host position in a couple of years and I think they just wanted to add a different dynamic. It felt right because if you look at it, I managed to get to know a lot of poker players and establish friendships with them during Season 6. It was really the perfect fit bringing me back.”

“I’m still doing interviews like I did before and keeping people up to speed on Live Updates. I’ve also been shooting interviews throughout the event for broadcast. We’re trying to give viewers an idea of what happened in the days leading up to the final table.” She continued.

Kimberly Lansing not only had a great career in the poker industry but a great persona that strives her with her beauty and brain to her life.

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Sandra “Black Mamba” Naujoks

Finding a beautiful woman who can also indulge in your macho hobbies might be hard, but it definitely isn't impossible. Sandra Naujoks, not only she is smoking hot, but she could also give a serious run for money on poker night.

Whoever thought that women could not beat men at their own game was clearly delusional. Aside from the corporate ladder, women excel in sports, fashion, and even in poker. Now, poker nights are no longer exclusive to men and their cigars because women have been doing the same thing. Aside from the great looks and the sexy smile, these girl on poker, Sandra Naujoks can successfully maneuver their way to the top with their wits.

After studying German and History she became a teacher, only to give that up to be a successful Graphic Designer and Model. However, another new direction has now come to fruition. While teaching Sandra spent her free time playing around with graphic design. She decided that this was more her thing and pursued this as a career while modeling on the side.

While modeling and working as a graphic designed, the poker hottie Sandra Naujoks was also playing some online poker on the side as a hobby under the username "Black Mamba". After a few good wins she decided to enter more live tournaments and was finishing very strong in these events. Her first big win in a live tournament was at the CAPT Baden event where she came first in the 4000 euro No Limit Poker event. There she won 174,5000 euros and beat out some very tough competition with players such as Pokerstars pro Alex Kravchenko who she faced heads up to win the tournament.

In 2008, she got her career rolling with a fifth place finish at the Casinos Austria Poker Tour Graz Open for $23.5K. A few months later, she won CAPT Baden for $240K, an astonishing achievement for somebody so new to the game. A year later, Naujoks shocked the world again by winning European Poker Tour German Open for a staggering $1.1 million. Not only did she win an incredible sum of money, but the time, she was the first woman to win an EPT event. She has gone on to record multiple cashes since, including a $52K score for 36th in the 2009 $10K EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and first in the 2009 Team Cup Mountain Poker Party in Seefeld for $11K. All told, Sandra has over $1.5 million in live tournament earnings.

Sandra Naujoks really became popular in March of 2009 after she won the German EPT event in Dortmund. There she cashed for 917,000 euros and became the 2nd woman ever to win an EPT title.

With already two major poker titles under her belt, Sandra Naujoks has established herself as an extremely gifted poker player, and she sits among the all-time German money winners. She’s also been recognized with many awards, including European Female Player of the Year. Already a star, Sandra is sure to be a familiar face at the tables in years to come.

In her spare time, Sandra Naujoks likes to travel and work with the charity groups, including All in 4 Kids, which she established herself. Online Casino, she is also a Team PokerStars Pro and plays as under the name “S.Naujoks”.

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