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Editors of the American Bleacher Report put together on a yearly basis the top 30 hottest female poker stars for the year. The new list has just been published a couple of days ago and, as usual, holds a few surprises. Editors of the Bleacher Report mainly judged the contendents by their looks and didn’t disqualify entrance into the list even if the only connection to poker the ladies hold is that they know which card is which. Some of the big names in the game also made is to the top 30, and a few pros even managed to secure a place in the top 10.
30th position was taken by the wife of the American WPT winner Michael Mizrachi. Lily ’Mrs Grinder’ Elviro’s best result came in 2005, when she took 27th place in the WPT World Poker Challenge. Her total live career winnings equate to $67,018 with seven money finishes.
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Lily Elviro
Right ahead of her is a real professional, the WSOP champion Annie Duke. We can easily state that she earns more money from poker than being a swimsuit model, as her live career takings through poker exceed $4,245,549.
Kara Scott finished 27th. She got into the money in both the 2008 and 2009 WSOP and is also a host for several poker TV series. She was last featured in High Stakes Poker Season 6.
Kara Scott
Full Tilt Poker pro Beth Shak finished in second place at the $3000 NLHE event of the 2007 WSOP, outwitting Phil Hellmuth among others at the final table. Lady Shak started her poker career with play money tournaments. Her current live winnings exceed $450,000 and she made it to the 24th place on the list.
Although Jennifer Harman’s poker skills can not be questioned, it came as a surprise that the Americans found her sexy enough to secure the 22nd place. The two-time WSOP champion has live tournament winnings over $2,377,215 and is also an acknowledged cash game player.
Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman was overtaken by Tiffany Michelle, who joined the poker circus working for the Bleff Magazine and showed her skills in 2008, when she took 17th place in the WSOP Main Event. Besides this, she is also known as an actress and singer.
19th place was taken by another great player, Isabelle ’No Mercy’ Mercier. The Canadian pro has several WSOP, WPT and EPT money finishes, and her live career winnings are $1,181,141.
The WPT and EPT High Roller winner Vanessa Rousso is considered one of the best female poker players in the world, with her winnings exceeding $2,533,846. Rousso has made it to the cover of several magzines and took the 18th position on Bleacher’s list.
Vanessa Rousso
17th place was taken by Clonie Gowen and the follow-ups are Evelyn Ng, Liz Lieu, Jennifer Tilly and Liv ’Iron Maiden’ Boeree.
10th position was taken by WPT host Kimberly Lansing, which, according to Bleacher Report, can be thanked to her sexy and elegant way of wearing sunglasses and full-chested views at the table.
Kimberly Lansing
The player that has done it all: model, actress, poker player and TV host Lacey Jones came in 9th position.
Skipping our way down the lilst, we come to 6th position, which was taken by David Benyamine’s ex, Erica Schoenberg. This innocent lady is sponsored by Full Tilt Poker and has learned a lot from David, with six WSOP and three WPT money finishes already behind her. Ever since the break-up she hasn’t been the same, tainting her innocence and participating in Carmen Electra’s strip poker show. Although she won, no clothes were left hanging on her by the end of the show.
Erica Schoenberg
One of my favourites, Tatjana Pasalic took 5th place. The Croatian poker blogger started broadcasting Unibet Open events in July 2009, which gave Croatia a huge poker boost, with more than 40,000 people following Unibet series on the web. Since then, she has been signed by Unibet and is hosting the 2010 series.
Tatjana Pasalic
4th position was taken by the Playmate Joanna Krupa, and third place went to Shannon Elizabeth, known more famously from American Pie. Shannon has four WSOP money finishes and acquired her best results in 2007, in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship, which is known for its rock hard competition. She took third place, with Paul Wasicka and Chad Brown finishing in front of her.
Shannon Elizabeth
2nd place was taken by Chantel McNulty, whose total lifetime career winnings are $28,864.
Bleacher Report’s crown landed on Tina Wallman’s head, who is the one of the models for Carbon Poker, but has no other relation to poker besides this. Some interesting facts for the stat-lovers: the Australian lady’s sizes up as follows: breasts size 98, waist size 68 and hips of 85.
Tina Wallman
Who do you think is the hottest on the list? Who do you think has been left out? Do you reckon Tina deserved the crown? Share with us your opinion and your views on this topic!