Vanessa Selbst
| Vanessa Selbst | |
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Selbst after winning the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the 2008 World Series of Poker
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| Nickname(s) | fslexcduck |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Born | July 9, 1984 |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 3 |
| Final table(s) | 8 |
| Money finish(es) | 20 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish |
73rd, 2012 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 2 |
| Money finish(es) | 3 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 4 |
Vanessa K. Selbst (born July 9, 1984) is an American professional poker player and the only woman to ever reach the number one ranking in the world on the Global Poker Index. She has over 10 million dollars in live poker tournament earnings and is a member of Team Pokerstars Pro, where she plays under the username "V. Selbst".
Selbst has three World Series of Poker bracelets and is the first and only female to win three WSOP bracelets in open field events. She is also the only poker player to win the same North American Poker Tour Main Event back-to-back. In January 2013 Selbst won the PCA high roller for $1.4 million, which made her the highest earning female in poker history.
Selbst was born in Brooklyn, New York into a Jewish family. She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year before transferring to Yale University, where she graduated with a degree in political science. After Yale, on a Fulbright scholarship, she spent a year in Spain. On her return to the United States, she worked for McKinsey Group. She later returned to Yale Law School and received her law degree in 2012. During her time at Yale University, she was head of the Yale Queer-Straight Alliance. Selbst was a coach and executive producer for DeucesCracked, an online poker training site. In 2013, she married her partner of three and a half years. She and her wife reside in New York.
Selbst has 21 live poker tournament results equaling six figure paydays or above.
Selbst has made five Main Event final tables of various poker tours and gone on to capture three titles. She 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. She earned $450,000 for her 2011 1st-place finish and became the first and only person to win two consecutive NAPT Main Events. To date, Selbst's biggest purse was when she won €1,300,000 ($1.82 million) for her first-place finish at the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour.
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