扑克女王—芭芭拉Enright

  Enright芭芭拉成为扑克名人,是在2007年当她与菲尔Hellmuth一起入选第一位女性成员的时候。

  Enright指出,开始玩的时候是和比她仅大4岁的弟弟一起玩牌,在1976年开始在棋牌室打。当她开始通过打扑克相对于其他工作赚更多的钱的时候,她辞掉工作,开始专门打扑克。

  Enright指出,2008年2月2日,她入选名人堂扑克厅妇女。她现在是所有三个扑克大厅的成员,是具有历史意义的扑克选手:高级扑克名人堂,世界扑克系列(WSOP)名人堂,名人堂的扑克厅妇女大厅。

  芭芭拉Enright是女子扑克玩家的杂志主编,是一个已婚扑克玩家和最大夏皮罗的作者。

  世界扑克系列

  Enright是达到了世界扑克系列赛主赛事决赛桌的唯一的女性扑克玩家。她在1995年WSOP赢得了第五名,并在2005年的主要赛事中获得成功。

  芭芭拉Enright声称:在WSOP的10个手镯,现在已经兑现有3个WSOP手镯。她的第一个手镯是她在第一次扑克锦标赛中赢得,这是1986年世界系列赛的七张牌梭哈扑克妇女赛事。 Enright指出在1994年她再次赢得了相同的赛事。

  她的第三个手镯是在1996年底池限注德州扑克比赛中获得的,她成为第一位曾经赢得世界系列扑克公开赛的女性。

  其他扑克锦标赛

  在2000年的传奇扑克锦标赛,Enright指出:各地将其评为最佳玩家,由于她在8场比赛中赢取了6场。

  Enright指出是最高的冠军赛,在新奥尔良酒店和拉斯维加斯赌场举行,她同时代参加了电视系列扑克,扑克皇家:中世纪的争斗。

  她也在一些高调的比赛活动取得了成功,如钻石吉姆布雷迪比赛和好莱坞公园扑克德比赛。

  芭芭拉Enright指出:截至2007年,她已经在现场锦标赛中赢得了120万美元奖金。

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  Barbara Enright

  Barbara Enright became the first woman member of the Poker Hall of Fame when she was inducted in 2007 along with Phil Hellmuth.

  Enright began playing playing Five-Card Draw against her older brother at just 4 years old and started playing in cardrooms in 1976. When she began to make more money playing poker part time than in a variety of other jobs, she quit working and started playing poker professionally.

  On February 2, 2008, Enright was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame. She is now the only poker player in history to be a member of all three poker hall of fames: the Senior Poker Hall of Fame, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Hall of Fame and the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.

  Barbara Enright is Editor-in-Chief of Woman Poker Player magazine and is married to poker player and author Max Shapiro.

  World Series of Poker

  Enright is the only female poker player to have reached the Main Event final table at the World Series of Poker. She finished 5th at the 1995 WSOP and also cashed at the 2005 Main Event.

  Barbara Enright has 3 WSOP bracelets so far and has cashed at the WSOP 10 times. Her first bracelet came in her very first poker tournament, the 1986 World Series of Poker Women’s Seven-Card Stud Event. Enright won the same event again in 1994.

  Her third bracelet came in the 1996 Pot Limit Hold’em Event, when she became the first woman to ever win a World Series of Poker open event.

  Other Poker Tournaments

  At the Legends of Poker tournament in 2000, Enright was named All Around Best Player after cashing 8 times and making 6 final tables.

  Enright is the highest female finisher (11th) in the Tournament of Champions, held at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and took part in the televised poker series, Poker Royale: Battle of the Ages.

  She has also achieved a number of first place finishes in high profile events such as the Diamond Jim Brady tournament and the Hollywood Park Poker Derby.

  As of 2007, Barbara Enright has won over $1.2 million in live tournament prize money