The Australian poker player Heidi May found her place among the World Series of Poker bracelet winners, after taking down the 2017 WSOP $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship. This is a great success for May, who has managed to claim the title of one of the traditional WSOP events.
This year’s edition of the WSOP $10,000 Laries No-Limit Hold’em has gathered a players field of 718 entries, with the young Australian player emerging as winner and taking home his first WSOP gold bracelet. The participants accounted for an overall guaranteed prize pool of $654,300, with only the top 108 players finishing in the money.
The 27-year-old Heidi May is a professional poker player, who has total live earnings amounting to $238,446. The $135,098 cash portion of the guaranteed prize pool that she won has been the best live cash generated by May in her career so far. This is also the largest WSOP cash that the player has managed to generate up to date. This is the sixth time when Heidi May has finished in the money in a WSOP tournament, with her previous World Series of Poker cashes totalling $35,376, and boosting her all-time WSOP cashes to $170,474. Apart from the World Series of Poker games she has taken part in so far, May has also played in a number of live events in Australia, as well as in some Las Vegas-based poker events.
Day 3 of the 2017 WSOP $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em saw Heidi May as a chip leader among the five players who then returned for the event’s final. Despite that, the Australian’s way to victory was not easy, as for most of the event’s final day it was the British player Deborah Worley-Roberts who got the chip lead. At one point of the game, the UK player had a 3:1 margin to May, who somehow managed to shorten Worley-Roberts’ lead over the third-handed action.
At the time when the two-handed play began, May had already got her chip lead back. After that, she quickly managed to reduce the chip stack of Deborah Worley-Roberts, boosting her edge to 6:1 in the event’s final hand.
With Heidi May occupying the first place in the 2017 WSOP $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship, taking home a cash prize estimated to $135,098 as well as a WSOP gold bracelet, it is Deborah Worley-Roberts who occupied the runner-up position in the competition. She was granted with a monetary prize of $83,459 for her efforts. The third place in the ranking has been take by Jana de la Cerra, who won a guaranteed prize pool portion estimated to $57,930.
Julie Dang emerged on the fourth position, followed by Katherine Ansorge. Alexis Sterner remained sixth, while the seventh place in the ranking was taken by Tiffany Lee. The eighth and ninth place were occupied by Meg Zampino and Karen Hodge, respectively.
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Harry Evans
