Vanessa Selbst

Vanessa Selbst
Selbst after winning the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the 2008 World Series of Poker
Nickname(s)	fslexcduck
Hometown	Brooklyn, New York
Born	July 9, 1984 (1984-07-09)
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	1
Money finish(es)	11
Highest ITM Main Event finish	476th, 2010
World Poker Tour
Title(s)	None
Final table(s)	1
Money finish(es)	2
European Poker Tour
Title(s)	None
Final table(s)	None
Money finish(es)	3

Vanessa Selbst (born July 9, 1984) is an American professional poker player who has made five final tables, including two heads-up semi-finals, at the World Series of Poker and won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Selbst also won the main event of the 2010 and 2011 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour at Mohegan Sun. In 2010, Selbst became a member of Team PokerStars where she is known on the site as "V. Selbst".

Selbst was born in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and is currently a student at Yale Law School, with the intention of pursuing a career in the field of civil rights law". During her time at Yale, she was head of the Yale Queer-Straight Alliance.^{[citation needed]} She is also a coach and executive producer at online poker training site DeucesCracked.

World Series of Poker

Selbst has seven cashes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Her first was in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2006 WSOP, where she finished in seventh place, earning $101,285. At the 2007 WSOP she finished tied for third place in the semi-finals of the $5000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, earning $128,968 and finished in the semi-finals again the next year, this time in the 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, earning $108,288. Earlier at the 2008 WSOP, she won her first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event, earning $227,933 and was the first female player to win an open buy-in event that year.

World Series of Poker bracelets

Year	Event	Prize Money
2008	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	$227,933

World Poker Tour

Selbst was the runner-up at the $1,500 World Poker Tour - Ladies Championship, earning $40,815 and was the winner of the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event in the World Poker Tour Ladies at the 2008 L.A. Poker Classic after defeating fellow professional poker player Erica Schoenberg during heads-up play, earning $26,500.

Selbst, at the 2008 World Poker Finals, won the $1,850 No Limit Hold'em event, earning $115,000. At the 2009 World Poker Finals, she won the $1,375 No Limit Hold'em event, earning $74,224 and finished 3rd in the $2,350, earning $28,642.

In 2011, Selbst took third in the 2011 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, winning $338,351.

North American Poker Tour

In 2010, Selbst won the $5,000 Main Event of the Mohegan Sun leg of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour, earning $750,000.

In 2011, Selbst successfully defended her title at the Mohegan Sun, earning $450,000, and in the process wrote poker history when she became the first person to win two consecutive NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Events.

European Poker Tour

Selbst won $ 226,910 finishing 4th place in the $20K EPT London High Roller event, fellow PokerStars player Nacho Barbero won the event for $870,082 [3].

Other Poker Results

Selbst won € 1,300,000 ($1.82M) at the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour.

As of 2011, her total live tournament winnings exceed $3,500,000. Her seven cashes in the WSOP account for $633,448 of those winnings.

External links

• CardPlayer.com - WSOP: Bracelet Winner Q and A -- Vanessa Selbst
• DeucesCracked.com interview
• PokerNews.com - 2008 WSOP Event #19 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha: Vanessa Selbst Triumphs