One For the Ladies
Day 1 of Event #53: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship will get under way shortly — the one event of the series where female players enjoy a 90% discount on the buy-in and can play a male-free tournament for the price of $1,000.
The players will start with 3,000 chips and try to make it through 10 60-minute levels of play before bagging up for the night.
Last year, Canadian Kristen Bicknell won this event and it was the largest cash of her live poker-playing career by far at $173,922. She mostly plays online where she maintains Supernova Elite on PokerStars. There were 954 players in the 2013 rendition of the ladies event and we'll be looking to match that this year.
The PokerNews live blog is your source for the latest updates on all the action, so keep checking in here to follow these ladies as they battle for a prestigious gold WSOP bracelet.