The World Poker Tour (WPT) Girls Meet Up Sport, held and hosted by Jamie Kertsetter on December seventeenth beginning at 11 a.m. on the Wynn Poker Room, was a powerful success.
The joy surrounding the occasion encompassed greater than the $5,500 in bonus prizes given by the WPT, both as a $100 Wynn present card or a coveted $1,100 Passport right into a future occasion on the WPT’s Season 21 arising in 2023.
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The joy was additionally from taking part in with the likes of Veronica Brill, Sofia Lövgren, Xuan Liu, Katie Kopp (bracelet winner of the 2022 WSOP On line casino Staff Occasion), Linda Johnson, Jan Fisher, Kyna England, Kristy Moreno, and plenty of extra.
The WPT World Championship Pageant celebrating its twentieth anniversary on the Wynn Las Vegas, can be celebrating ladies, from its inaugural Girls Championship with a $200k assure and televised ultimate desk, to supporting the Girls Meet Up Sport. Angelica Hael, WPT’s VP of World Tour Administration, and a fervent supporter of girls’s initiatives in poker, was herself simply inducted into the Ladies’s Poker Corridor of Fame this final week.
WPT Girls MUG
Attendees have been greeted by Kerstatter, Liu and Lindsey Kludt, and acquired present luggage, and later have been the recipients of thriller splash pots each 20 minutes. An envelope went into the pot (together with sweet, present playing cards, WPT hats, and far more), and the winner of the pot would open the envelope to both a $100 Wynn present card or an $1100 Passport right into a 2023 WPT Occasion. Tables erupted with cheers on the prizes, some even doing the wave, and the winners of the passports have been excited on the capacity to freeroll an occasion subsequent yr. Sara Swenson, Jan Fisher, Teresa Katrinak, and Sarah Wasch have been all passport winners.
Kludt, a well-liked Twitter influencer {and professional} poker participant, informed PokerNews that “the Wynn is my house poker site so having the workers assist ladies in poker at this occasion (and provides us a lot house) …is a giant deal.”
Sarah Wasch received a passport!
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Eight tables ran in the course of the meet-up with $1/$3, $2/$5, $4/$8 H.O.R.S.E, and $1/$2 PLO spreading. Efi Litsou, the final lady standing within the 2022 WSOP Most important Occasion, got here to loosen up in her “zen” house. Tara Smith, President of the Ladies’s Poker Affiliation, and Erin Lydon, President of Poker Energy, and AJ Rudolph, Program Supervisor at Poker Energy got here to assist and benefit from the MUG. Electrical energy and pleasure ran by your complete occasion, welcoming newcomers right into a protected house filled with camaraderie to play alongside professionals.
Lydon commented: “The monetary limitations for ladies in poker are very excessive…The primary time a lady sits at a desk it needs to be a unprecedented expertise, as a result of if it’s scary…in case you really feel such as you don’t belong there, you’re not going to come back again.”
On the MUG she provides in regards to the assist for brand spanking new and upcoming gamers: “I believe alternatives like this…the place you recognize everybody’s going to play arduous and be aggressive however they’re additionally going to be actually supportive and in case you’re new, we’ll aid you.”
WPT Girls MUG
Joey Ingram, who got here to assist the MUG, commented: “It’s nice to see so many girls out right here in the present day, a bunch of tables going, everyone appears excited and everyone in a great temper and a variety of good giveaways as properly too.” He mirrored that “these occasions have potential and actually scratched the floor for what’s potential for bringing collectively teams of individuals within the poker world…It’s thrilling to see.”
Kerstetter, who along with internet hosting this occasion was additionally taking part in within the Girls Championship the identical day, ultimate tabled that occasion. On the finish of the day, “I’m glad that after I requested WPT for funding and giveaways and to let me host occasions just like the Girls Meet Up sport, that they at all times simply say sure, it’s not even a query. Giving ladies an opportunity to play a future $1100 … they’re so thrilled to play, they’re so glad to get the prospect that I really feel that that’s actually necessary.”
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Christina Bradfield
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Christina is a Las Vegas-based freelance author who found poker on the age of twelve. She’s been a contributor to PokerNews since 2022.
