Seems that Liv Boeree is doing quite well for herself at the commerce casino. Liv currently holds an above average stack of 98,100 chips, which ranks her #7 among the 27 players remaining in the $1,065 No Limit Hold 'Em event .
The tournament drew 222 players total, creating a $214,260 prize pool. The winner of the tournament will be collecting a nice $62,100 - nothing really outstanding, but hey - it's just one of many events at this year's LA Poker Classic!
With the World Poker Tour Main Event, the final table of the Celebrity Invitational and the High Roller tournaments coming up in LA, we're hoping for at least one or two poker girls to take home a trophy.
It seems that we might have spoken too quickly when we concluded Annette Obrestad was the only poker girl left in the EPT Copenhagen Main Event. Seems as if a few women came out of nowhere, some of them vanishing just as quickly as they have appeared. Let's take a look at the current status of the tournament.
Unfortunately for everyone, the girls' highest hope for a solid performance, Annette Obrestad, was eliminated from the tournament by Lars Krogh, who's pocket aces dominated Annette's AJ without mercy. This adds to her line of recent losses, but good times will definitely follow soon - they always do.
One of the girls we apparently missed was Xuan Liu. Currently residing in Toronto, Canada, Xuan has been around playing live poker tournaments ever since late 2009. She actually took down the Pokerstars.com IPT San Remo No Limit Hold 'Em event in December 2011, outlasting a field of 153 and earning a $68,857 prize. Her total bankroll is estimated at slightly above $90,000, excluding any cash games winnings. Jenny Chu would be proud of her! Xuan was eliminated from the EPT Copenhagen Main Event yesterday (Day 2) when her pre-flop attempt at a 3bet shove against cut-off raiser Johan van Til's was met by a call from Johan. Liu turned out to be holding T7 , which stood no chance against Til's AQ. The board brought no surprises.
Next on the list is Pernille Ravn. She actually seems to be the last woman standing in the event at the moment, going into Day 3 with a short, yet still playable stack of 76,900 chips. Blinds are at 1,500/3,000, just so you know. Pernille is called the Dannish poker queen, largely because of her beauty, and has been around the poker tournament scene since early 2005, just like Vanessa Rousso. Not many achievements to her name as of this moment, with a few WSOP appearances and a total of $30,000 won live. Let's see if things change for her in Copenhagen. Oh and, if you are interested, you should check out her personal website - it's in Dannish, but if you use Google Translate, you should do fine.
Day 3 of the event starts today. Let's see what happens.
With EPT Copenhagen Main Event well underway, and the LA Poker Classic in full throttle, what better way to relax than a quick look at Charlotte Van Brabander, member of team Pokerstars Friends.
For those of you who don't know, Pokerstars friends are talented professional poker players, who aren't really members of Team Pokerstars pro, but who still get sponsored to play in the biggest tournaments around the world. We are not exactly sure about the difference between a PS friend and a PS pro, but as long as it adds more poker girls to the mix, we won't be asking too many questions.
Charlotte Van Brabander, known online as Sjlot, is a professional poker player born and raised in Belgium. What might come as a surprise to most of you is that, before getting into poker, Charlotte was a professional Counter Strike gamer. She even formed a CS team comprised of herself and four other girls, eventually getting sponsored and making it all the way into the Electronic Sports World Cup tournament. We have a feeling she and Liv Boeree would get along just fine.
As a poker player, Charlotte Van Brabander is still waiting for her big break. She plans to play in as many of this year's UKIPT events and EPT ladies events as possible, so hopefully she'll get something going soon. One thing is certain: with Pokerstars backing her, Vanessa Rousso giving her lessons at her Big Slick Bootcamps, and the competitive instinct that she's nourished throughout her years of playing Counterstrike, we could be looking at the next Annette Obrestad here. Let's wish her the best!
