contents [hide]<\/span><\/p> Alice Ivers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Lottie Deno<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Vanessa Selbst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sara Chafak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Melika Razavi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Honorable Mentions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n Alice Ivers, or Poker Alice, was a notorious, self-confident, skillful poker player in the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> century<\/strong>. Poker Alice remains in the collective memory of gamblers as an assertive feminist icon in a male-ridden environment.<\/p>\n Born in England and reared in the States, Alice Ivers got to know the game of Five-card stud<\/strong> early. Namely, her first husband \u2013 yes, she married many times<\/strong> \u2013 was a poker enthusiast who perished several years after the wedding. It was alongside him that Alice learned the rules of the trade. However, it was not until her second marriage that she became serious about her poker habits.<\/p>\n Alice\u2019s second husband was a fellow dealer whom she had saved from a pistol attack with her much-loved .38 gun<\/strong>. At that time, Alice Ivers frequented saloons, smoked, and made money through poker.<\/p>\n As a poker strategy, she would spend all the won she won on flirty, full-length, ruched dresses. How can clothes be a part of a poker strategy? Well, Alice lived in a male-dominant world and had to work her way around gender inequality. Poker Alice user her ball gowns to distract men and drive their attention to her instead of the game. Then, she would use a moment of their inattention to turn the odds to her favor.<\/p>\n However, Poker Alice was not just sly <\/strong>and attractive<\/strong>, but also shrewd<\/strong> and intelligent<\/strong>. She was a skilled card counter<\/strong> and for a long time made a living by playing poker.<\/p>\n In 1987, Elizabeth Taylor played Poker Alice in the same-titled female gambler movie.<\/p>\n Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert was her full name; she took the names of each of her husbands. But gambling audiences will always remember her as Poker Alice<\/strong>. She lingers as a role model for female gamblers worldwide.<\/p>\n Lottie Deno and Poker Alice were contemporaries but never crossed paths<\/strong>. Living in the American frontier, Charlotte Thompkins traveled a lot exercising her poker skills.<\/p>\n As her father bred racehorses and was an avid gambler, he taught his youngest how to play cards. And lo and behold, she mastered the game in a heartbeat. She played so well that she earned herself a considerable fortune to live off of in her old days.<\/p>\n At one point in her adulthood, Lottie found herself penniless. That is when she considered poker as a means to make ends meet.<\/p>\n While in San Antonio in the mid-19th century, she met and fell head over heels for Frank Thurmond<\/strong>. As Thurmond was also a fervent gambler, the duo made a perfect couple.<\/p>\n After Frank was accused of murder, Lottie decided to flee with him and they went on a gambling spree throughout the Wild West. While on the road, Carlotta was crowned many nicknames, from the Angel of San Antonio <\/strong>to Mystic Maud<\/strong>. But the world reminisces her as Lottie Deno, which is presumably short for Spanish \u201cdinero\u201d (money<\/em>).<\/p>\n A female gambler movie, or rather a series, was filmed about Lottie \u2013 Death Valley Days<\/em>. The show won the Best Factual Television Program in 1961.<\/p>\n Unlike our girl Alice, Lottie was much less outrageous and flamboyant. Instead, when Lottie had enough of poker, she pulled out from the game to enjoy her wealth. In the late 1880s, Frank became vice president of Deming National Bank. Carlotta J. Thompkins outlived her husband and lived to be 89.<\/p>\n Moving on to modern times, we\u2019re taking the time machine to the 21st<\/sup> century. Vanessa Selbst is a living legend and an ardent poker player. Vanessa Selbst is definitely one of the female gambler names you want to remember.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a sentence \u2013 Vanessa Selbst is arguably the best poker player that\u2019s ever lived<\/strong>. In her career, she scooped 3 WSOP bracelets<\/strong> and has net winnings worth around $12,000,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n While fathoming such monetary fortune, Selbst became a celebrity, acting as a coach in PokerStars tournaments. She was an advisor to Cristiano Ronaldo in a charity tournament<\/strong><\/a> against the 2015 Miss World Mireia Lalaguna.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t walk in poker circles without hearing this poker legend\u2019s name. She\u2019s beaten all the popular male gamblers of her time. Selbst is the sole woman to win three bracelets in open tourneys. Even the notorious Daniel Negreanu<\/strong><\/a> took more time to achieve the same success in gambling.<\/p>\n By vocation, Vanessa Selbst is a hedge fund manager with a degree from Yale Law School. At the time of writing, she is not an active professional poker player anymore.<\/p>\n Check out Vanessa Selbst best moments below:<\/p>\n1.\u00a0\u00a0 Alice Ivers<\/h2>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0 Lottie Deno<\/h2>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0 Vanessa Selbst<\/h2>\n
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