Introduction
Vanessa Selbst is a professional poker player with a law degree from Yale. Her outstanding results have put her in the top 100 of the overall All Time Money List with career tournament winnings just shy of $12 million. Vanessa was extremely popular on the poker circuit. She was an aggressive player and never hid her emotions. In 2018, Vanessa announced she was retiring. This shocked the professional poker community as she had an impressive track record and was a Poker Stars Team Pro Member with many more good innings ahead of her.
A Worthy Career
Vanessa got introduced to poker during her teen years, and the game mesmerized her, leading to her climb to stardom in the 2006 WSOP, where she made the final table of the $2000 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament, finishing in 7th place and winning $101 285. It was the start of this New Yorkers rise in the poker community, and over the years, she achieved six-figure scores and won her first WSOP bracelet in 2008, where she netted over $250 000.
In 2010 she won the prestigious title in the North American Poker Tour Main Event, banking a prize of $750 000 for her first-place win, and went back to back, winning the same event the following year to the tune of $450 000. Her biggest career win was the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event in September 2010, and she walked away with a whopping $1 8 million. Vanessa went on to win another two WSOP bracelets, one in 2012 and the second in 2014, becoming the only female player with three bracelets from open events.
Where is she Now?
Vanessa walked away from the poker community because she felt it was no longer fun, and the stress of constant scrutiny got to her. Vanessa still plays in the occasional Tournament.