Archive for the ‘Player Profiles’ Category

Tiffany Michelle

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Former crowd favorite, Tiffany Michelle, developed a bit of repuation as a super bitch at the 2008 WSOP. The 3 things in summary that did it were:

1. Calling the clock on someone when their tourney life was on the line and they had a tough decision

2. Eating fries at the table with her hands

3. Waggling her finger around (pointing at her chips) and not saying a word when asked for a chip count.

Having seen a few more recent interview videos with Tiffany, it seems that perhaps she received a bit of a hard time due partly to some rather harsh editing. For example, the player in question who she called the clock on had apparently been deciding for 10-15 minutes. She also says she received quite a lot of constant ribbing at the table, that put her quite a bit on the defensive, which naturally when seen in isolation looks like giving it some attitude.

Regarding the french fries saga she says she ate them with one hand and handled chips and the cards with the other hand.

Having seen the videos it’s tough not to like her as she always seems very friendly, passionate, and well-natured. The jury is out, I’ll let you decide for yourselves, but personally I’ve re-warmed to her as a poker personality, and it will be interesting to see if she can gradually turn the image around to a more favorable one.

Victoria Coren

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Victoria Coren has had an interesting career progression. Some people cant help themselves to consider any new player they havent heard of who happens to win a major title as a lucksack. But here in this video you get a proper flavour of the work Victoria has put in, and why she is one of the top female poker players around.

Victoria Coren won the EPT London in 2006 winning $941,513

Sandra Naujoks - 2nd female to take down an EPT

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Sandra Naujoks has become the 2nd women to win an EPT title, by winning the 2009 EPT Dortmund. She took home over 900K in Euros in the process.

Naujoks - EPT poker winner

Result

1st: Sandra Naujoks (Germany) - €917,000
2nd: Holger Kanisch (Germany) - €533,000
3rd: Marc Gork (Germany) - €307,000
4th: Johan Storakers (Sweden) - €237,000
5th: Mike McDonald (Canada) - €197,000
6th: Luca Pagano (Italy) - €153,000 (PokerStars Pro)
7th: William Thorson (Sweden) - €116,500
8th: Cengizcan Ulusu (Turkey) - €83,500

(All prize money is Euros)