One other participant has booked their place within the 2023 PokerStars Gamers Championship after the ‘PokerStars x Poker Energy Bootcamp Showdown’ event at EPT Prague.
Roxanne Johnson, a former courtroom liaison officer within the Canadian Mounted Police, was invited to participate and underwent a four-week female-only poker BootCamp culminating gin a winner-takes-all showdown within the Czech capital.
“Onto the Subsequent Chapter”
Johnson will probably be becoming a member of Giada Fang, who gained her Platinum Move at EPT Barcelona, and Rishva Iyer who gained the PokerStars Highway to PSPC Ladies’s Occasion in Philadelphia earlier this 12 months.
“It’s been a tremendous journey to this point […] It’s been a tremendous journey to this point!”
“I can’t imagine that simply occurred,” Johnson instructed the PokerStars Weblog. “It’s so surreal however I’m so excited to be heading to PSPC within the Bahamas.
“It’s been a tremendous journey to this point with all of the assist from the groups at PokerStars and Poker Energy to assembly all the opposite girls in Prague. Can’t look forward to the following chapter on the PSPC!”
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PokerStars x Poker Energy Partnership
The partnership was arrange earlier this 12 months, to assist girls construct their confidence and abilities within the recreation and to create extra alternatives for ladies already energetic inside the neighborhood.
“I really like what they’re doing in instructing life abilities to girls via poker”
PokerStars Ambassador Jen Shahade, who’s on the board of Poker Energy, known as it a “nice partnership.”
“I really like what they’re doing in instructing life abilities to girls via poker. After which clearly PokerStars has been nice about attempting to get extra girls within the recreation.
“When you give girls who’re enthusiastic about giving poker or attempting some intensive poker coaching a chance, then they change into actually good gamers rapidly.”
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Shahade mentioned that the consequences of the BootCamp may very well be clear to see on the closing desk with the standard of the play, particularly contemplating the place the place to begin for some gamers.
“We noticed flop check-raises, actually well-sized three-bets. Which is humorous as a result of throughout among the early classes somebody requested me if King-Ace-Deuce-Three-4 was a straight!”
The New Poker Dream for Ladies
Shahade says she’ll be serving to out Johnson — and the opposite two winners — because the PSPC attracts nearer, serving to them put together for the largest poker take a look at of their lives.
“It is all in regards to the poker dream,” mentioned Shahade. “For girls, this can be a poker dream that up till now we’ve not actually seen.”
Will Shillibier
Govt Editor E.U.
Will Shillibier is predicated in the UK. He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German, after which studied for a NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism at Sportsbeat in Manchester. He beforehand labored as a contract stay reporter, and video presenter for the World Poker Tour.
