{"id":26848,"date":"2021-03-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2021-03-04T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:49:35","slug":"what-ever-happened-to-vanessa-selbst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/what-ever-happened-to-vanessa-selbst\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ever Happened To Vanessa Selbst?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With International Women\u2019s Day<\/a> taking place tomorrow, Casino.org felt it was only right to honour the greatest female poker in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Vanessa Selbst isn\u2019t just the best female poker player in the history of poker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her results put her in the top 100 of the overall All Time Money List, with career tournament winnings just shy of $12,000,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over a decade, Selbst was one of the\nbest-known faces on the poker circuit. Her aggressive style and the fact she\nnever tried to hide her emotions only increased her popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, at the start of 2018, Vanessa announced she was retiring from professional poker<\/a>, shocking the entire community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With impressive results on her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and as a PokerStars Team Pro member, she had many great years ahead of her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, Selbst decided to say goodbye to poker and turn her attention to other things, both professionally and personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: Twitter\/VanessaSelbst<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, what ever happened to Vanessa Selbst? What\nled to her decision to leave the game she was once so passionate about, and\nwhat has she been up to lately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Career Worthy Of A History Book<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Selbst has had a truly impressive career in\npoker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1984 in New York, Vanessa, like many\nplayers, discovered poker during her teenage years and started off playing in\nhome games.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was mesmerized by the game, and not long\nafter, she decided to give it a proper try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her climb to stardom started in the 2006 World\nSeries of Poker, where she managed to make the final table of the $2,000 No-Limit\nHold\u2019em tournament, finishing in 7th<\/sup> place and banking $101,285 for\nher performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was only the beginning for the New Yorker.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the years to come, she would achieve many\nsix-figure scores. In 2008 Vanessa won her first WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 PLO\nevent, netting over a quarter of a million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, Selbst took down the North American\nPoker Tour Main Event, winning the prestigious title and the $750,000\nfirst-place prize. She then went back to back, winning the same event the next\nyear, this time around to the tune of $450,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, she took down the Partouche Poker\nTour Main Event in September of 2010 for her biggest career win of over $1.8\nmillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012 and 2014, Vanessa won two more WSOP\nbracelets, becoming the only female player with three bracelets from open\nevents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of writing this, Selbst\u2019s career\ntournament earnings stand at over $11.9 million, which is an impressive number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, although she\u2019s retired from professional\npoker, Vanessa still plays an occasional tournament here and there, so that\nnumber could easily go up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the real question is, what made the New\nYorker give up poker and her contract with PokerStars? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would be a dream scenario for many people,\nand Selbst probably enjoyed the ride for a while, but something changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too Much To Handle?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In January of 2018, Selbst announced her intention\nto retire from poker and took it to Facebook to explain her reasons behind this\ndecision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although her reasoning didn\u2019t sit well with\nsome, many within the community understood where she was coming from and shared\nthe same sentiment, at least to some degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I'm parting ways with PokerStars and moving on from poker in general. It's been the most amazing decade of my life. Thank you all for being a part of it. My full post is over on my facebook page, here. https:\/\/t.co\/4U9xas6Kqu<\/a><\/p>— Vanessa Selbst \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@VanessaSelbst) December 31, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>