1. Vanessa K Selbst was born on July 9,1984 and is a poker player, the only woman to ever reach the number one ranking in the world on the Global Poker Index.
13 Facts About Vanessa Selbst
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Vanessa Selbst is the only poker player to win the same North American Poker Tour Main Event back-to-back.
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Vanessa Selbst was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a Jewish family.
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Vanessa Selbst attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year before transferring to Yale University, where she graduated with a degree in political science.
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Vanessa Selbst later returned to Yale Law School and received her JD degree in 2012.
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Vanessa Selbst was a coach and executive producer for DeucesCracked, an online poker training site.
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Vanessa Selbst has 21 live poker tournament results equaling six figure paydays or above.
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Vanessa Selbst has made five Main Event final tables of various poker tours and gone on to capture three titles.
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Vanessa Selbst attended her first World Series at Las Vegas in 2006.
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Vanessa Selbst won the 2010 North American Poker Tour $5,000 Mohegan Sun Main Event, earning $750,000 and returned the following year to successfully defend her title.
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Vanessa Selbst earned $450,000 for her 2011 1st-place finish and became the first and only person to win two consecutive NAPT Main Events.
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Vanessa Selbst has made four High Roller final tables, winning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller in January 2013.
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Vanessa Selbst is the first woman to ever play in a Super High Roller event, taking third place at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 buy in tournament in January 2014.