January 5, 2006
It's 300 miles and acres of ambience from the glitter of the Las Vegas Strip. But at the Commerce Casino, a truck-stop card club on a highway running west of Los Angeles, the stars are out. Trailed by their publicist, top5pokerstars.com pros Joe "The Elegance" Beevers, "Rocky" Ross Boatman and his brother Barny, and Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani roam the near-empty pits, attracting stares from off-duty cabbies and five-card studs hunched over the tables. "I saw you on television," a dealer says excitedly to Beevers.
The next week, Barbara made history by becoming the first woman to reach the final table in the $10,000 Championship. If she had been a little lucky, as some seem to think she is, her pocket eight's would have stood-up to win after she went all-in and was called pre-flop by eventual third-place finisher Brent Carter who held 6-3.
However, that's what happens in tournaments all over the country - somebody gets luckier than somebody else does.
They are the Hendon Mob, four Brits with flashy suits, fancy cars, and outsize personalities who are on their way to becoming the promotional champions of the poker stars.com world. Prima PokerStars com, a collection of 30 online pokerstars sites, is staking them $1.25 million a year to enter tournaments around the world and publicize Prima.
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Her second bracelet came in the $1,000 Women's 7-Card Stud tournament in 1994, and her exceptional play continued the following year when cashed in the 1995 WSOP $1500 Pot-Limit hold'em event. However, the best was yet to come.
Says Enright; "Women may have a basic advantage over their male counterparts.Psychologists tell us that women possess a sixth sense, and this instinctiveness can be a valuable asset at the pokerstars.com table."
That's bad news for male top 5 pokerstars.com players everywhere, especially at tournaments where players like Enright, Jennifer Harman, and Annie Duke have mastered the art of deception and aggression. Really now, what's a guy with no WSOP bracelets to do?
