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The poker world was once dominated by men, but the online poker rooms have opened the way for many women to enter the game is perhaps the anonymity, or not play at tables that women draw in. Anyway, women are taking the poker world by storm.

Norwegian Annette Obrestad poker player is not only a pioneer for women in poker, but also for the younger generation. Obrestad started playing poker at the age of 15 years. When she turned 19, she had already won his first World Series of Poker Europe bracelet. Obrestad career blossomed and is now a member of the Great Britain Betfair Poker Pro Team. Obrestad said she has never had to pay money into an online poker room when it started. Instead, she played freeroll poker tournaments and financed his future from there. Obrestad current lifetime earnings poker tournaments in total almost 3 million USD. Now she is 21, poker fans expect that she will go to win the World Series of Poker in Nevada with the same skill with which she has won other tournaments.

Lady Maverick Vanessa Rousso is best known for its reputation in the poker world as his victories in tournaments. Rousso has used his celebrity status to focus national attention on the world of poker and online poker rooms in general. She is an active member of the Poker Players Alliance and has combined his love of poker with a background in law. When not busy with law school, poker tournaments, activism on behalf of poker players and poker industry; Rousso also works for his sponsor as a girl GoDaddy.com. She is also a member of Team PokerStars professionals. More recently, this woman Ultimate Poker Challenge host Chad Brown won the title in January 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure tournament.

Vanessa Selbst is another law student-on-hiatus that showed the poker world that women can do. Selbst is a graduate of Yale University and began working on a law degree before taking a break for a career in professional poker. So far it is paying, as with victories totaling nearly $ 900,000 USD, Selbst should be able to cover future legal studies. If Selbst plans to come back and finish a degree in civil rights law, is currently an executive producer and trainer for active poker room online training site DeucesCracked.com

In recent years, these three women poker players have shown that the world of tournament poker is not just for big boys more. They each use different methods, but each of those poker players helped pave way for women to get more involved in the game - poker tournaments and win-teaches us that it is not a man's world over.