Introducing PokerStars Women October 24, 2010
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I’m excited to announce that I am part a brand new team of writers for PokerStars Women! My first article covered Lauren Nakhoneinh Pottmeyer’s (pictured below) big win at the US Ladies Poker Championship. Lauren’s successful but risky road to immigration really put into perspective the vast difference between fortune in life and poker. To be clear, it’s more important to be lucky in the former 
My second piece for PokerStars Women will detail how to qualify for the Ladies PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Weekend (January 14-16) and provide basic satellite strategy tips. I’m really psyched to be part of this unique initiative to bring more women into poker via live events, the Women’s Poker League and an online community. Rebekah Mercer, who wrote a profile of me earlier this year in her Examiner column is the Senior Editor while my Women’s Poker Hour co-host Amy Zupko is also a contributing writer.
Speaking of Amy, listen to our latest Women’s Poker Hour shows (also available for free download on itunes!), with Team PokerStars Pros Maria “maridu” Mayrinck, Celina Lin and entrepreneur Ellen Leikind, author of PokerWoman.
Move Over Credit Card Roulette: Poker 1 on 1 with Vanessa October 8, 2010
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Although I don’t own an Ipad or iphone or Itouch yet (I’m anxiously awaiting Ipad 2.0 to show off my video art), I finally got my hands on a friend’s to play around with Poker 1 on 1 with Vanessa Rousso. I really enjoyed playing poker on the app, because unlike chess, I can still defeat artificial intelligence most of the time. Indeed, in our private lesson this summer in Vegas, the real Vanessa Rousso told me that she can beat Vanessa on the ipad most of the time. However, she and the programmers are constantly improving the artificial Vanessa, so that may change soon. My favorite thing about the application is that you can also play heads-up poker with your friends on it….a better way to determine who pays for dinner than CCR?
