Dana Castaneda first female bracelet winner of 2013

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 03, 2013 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

wsop bracelet2On Tuesday night Dana Castaneda became the first woman not named Vanessa Selbst to win an open-event at the World Series of Poker since Annette Obrestad and Katja Thater won WSOP bracelets back in 2007. Castaneda was victorious in Event #54, a $1,000 buy-in No Limit Holdem tournament, earning $454,207 after triumphing over a field of 2,883 players.

Castaneda made a remarkable comeback to win the tournament, as she came to the final table as the short-stack, but managed to chip-up and by the time the tournament was five-handed held the chip-lead and pretty much cruised to the title. Perhaps the turning point of the final tabled came on the hand that Castaneda took the chip-lead: According to the WSOP live reporting, Castaneda opened to 100k and was 3-Bet by Barry Hutter to 400k, which she called with her Pocket 3’s. On a T-4-4 flop Castaneda led out for 400k and Hutter jammed for 1.2 million. Castaneda then made the difficult but correct call as Hutter rolled over an unimproved A-K. A brick on the turn and river sent Hutter to the rail and propelled her to the chip-lead.

Here is a look at the final table payouts from the tournament:

1. Dana Castaneda – $454,207

2. Jason Bigelow – $281,991

3. Matthias Bednarek – $198,883

4. Michael Zucchet – $143,642

5. Philippe Clerc – $105,007

6. Barry Hutter – $77,685

7. Jacob Bazeley – $58,147

8. Joseph Wertz – $44.032

9. Kenneth Gregersen – $33,731

After last year’s performance by female poker players (which included bracelet wins by Vanessa Selbst and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman; a 10th and 11th place showing in the WSOP Main Event and countless final tables) an open-event win by a female player may not seem like all that big of a deal, but when you consider that prior to Castaneda’s win; in the 44 year-history of the WSOP only 15 open-event bracelets have been won by women (17 if you count Clare Miller’s 2006 and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman’s 2012 Seniors Tournament wins):

* 1982 Vera Richmond Limit Ace to Five Draw

* 1996 Barbara Enright Pot Limit Hold’em

* 1997 Linda Johnson Limit Razz

* 1997 Maria Stern Limit Seven Card Stud

* 2000 Jerri Thomas Limit Seven Card Stud

* 2000 Jennifer Harman No Limit 2-7 Lowball

* 2001 Nani Dollison Limit Hold’em

* 2002 Jennifer Harman Limit Hold’em

* 2004 Annie Duke Omaha Hi Lo Split 8 or Better

* 2004 Cyndy Violette Seven Card Stud Hi Lo Split 8 or Better

* 2004 Kathy Liebert Limit Hold’em Shootout

* *2006 Clare Miller Seniors No Limit Hold’em

* 2007 Katja Thater Seven Card Razz

* 2007 Annette Obrestad WSOPE Main Event No Limit Hold’em

* 2008 Vanessa Selbst Pot Limit Omaha

* 2012 Vanessa Selbst 10-Game Mix Six-Handed

* *2012 Allyn Jaffrey Shulman Seniors No Limit Hold’em

* 2013 Dana Castaneda No Limit Hold’em

 *resources: www.wsop.com



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