Jan 02, 2018 Bringing fans exclusive live access to the biggest poker tournaments in the world featuring the best players, the highest stakes, & the hottest venues in poker. 'Femme Fatale' week has undergone a makeover. Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup.
There's a new 'jumbo' episode of the PokerNews Podcast available (Episode No. 487). In addition to an interview with Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton and other items, the show features an extended interview with poker pro and coach Melanie Weisner including a couple of great hand analyses with useful strategic insights.
Weisner talks through two different hands she played on Poker After Dark during 'Femme Fatale' week on PokerGO. The first involves Weisner and the highly-accomplished Kathy Liebert who, as Weisner notes in her set-up, had been playing somewhat loose prior to this hand.
With the blinds $100/$200 in this cash game with a $20,000 minimum buy-in, Weisner opened from under the gun with , then Liebert three-bet from the cutoff with . Weisner chose just to call the reraise, and with $6,500 in the middle the flop came .
Each postflop street would go similarly, with Weisner checking and Liebert firing barrel after barrel. The first was for $3,000, with Weisner calling. Then after the turn Weisner check-called another $7,000 from Liebert.
The river was the , meaning Liebert finished with ace-high. Weisner checked once more, and Liebert gave Weisner a tough test by betting $21,000. Weisner talks through her decision a bit in the clip below, with Leibert also engaging in some interesting table talk as Weisner tries to decide what to do:
She was ## close to folding, but @PokerKat's third barrel can't get past @MelanieWeisner. Weisner is now up over $1… https://t.co/JQrO7NOpXV
— PokerGO (@PokerGO)On the podcast (starting just about the one-hour mark), Weisner offers a fuller discussion of her thought process in the hand. Weisner focuses in particular on her river decision and the pair's table talk — including how after Weisner told Liebert outright 'I happen to have queens' Liebert interestingly responded 'yeah, that's what I thought.'
Liebert's bet-sizing with her third barrel — betting nearly 80 percent of the pot — also played a factor that ultimately encouraged Weisner to call.
Also discussed on the show is another hand from earlier the same episode show involving Weisner and 888poker Ambassador Sofia Lovgren playing what turned out to be a big $65K pot in which Weisner flopped a set, Lovgren turned a straight, then Weisner rivered a full house:
If @Sofia_Lovgren liked the turn, @melanieweisner loved the river. An over $65,000 pot builds in a flash and the '… https://t.co/6jUMTc6trX
— PokerGO (@PokerGO)On the podcast the discussion of this hand begins around the 1 hour, 16-minute mark, with Weisner analyzing the action street-by-street and how ranges changed with Lovgren's bets and the changing board. Click here and check out the show.
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Canada’s best female poker player, Kristen Bicknell, headlining Poker After Dark’s ‘Femme Fatale’ week.
Kristen Bicknell had an amazing year in 2017. She bubbled in 28 live poker tournaments, including two 1st place finishes and a final table appearance at the 2017 WSOP’s $10k 6-Handed Championship. Following a spectacular start to her career via online poker site PokStars around 2005-06, Bicknell banked over US-$500k last year alone.
Is it any wonder she now ranks #1; the best female poker pro in the world in 2017?
As such, she’s kicking off the new year with her debut appearance on Poker After Dark. The once-popular television series first aired in 2007, but only survived 7 seasons before vanishing into thin air in 2011. Last summer, the poker TV show was revived by subscription-based PokerGO network, and is returning with a new schedule in 2018.
Since the reprisal last August, Poker After Dark (PAD) has taken on a new approach. Now it hosts weekly themes, and this week’s theme is Femme Fatale. As you may have guessed, Femme Fatale week is all about getting the world’s best female poker players together around the cash table.
Kristen Bicknell Headlines Femme Fatale Week
PAD kicked off its Femme Fatale week last night, January 4, on PokerGO. Bicknell faces stiff competition as 7 of the world’s most infamous female poker players are taking to the felt in a $100/$200 NLHE cash game. And tonight, they’ll go at it again.
Canada’s best female poker pro is taking on the likes of Kathy Liebert, Kitty Kuo, Sofia Lövgren, JJ Liu, Tracy Nguyen and Melanie Weisner.
Kathy Liebert is an American poker pro with over $6 million in tournament cashes to date. Kitty Kuo is a force to be reckoned with, as well, consistently cashing in tournaments since 2009 with $1.4 million to show for it. Tracy Nguyen is one of the lowest ranking players at PAD’s Femme Fatale table, yet she had no trouble besting her opponents last night as she came out $60k ahead.
These 7 ladies will go at it again tonight as Poker After Dark’s ladies week continues into Day 2.
How Canada’s Best Female Poker Player Rose to #1
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Kristen Bicknell, like so many of today’s young pros, got her start playing online poker in the mid 2000’s. Being Canadian, she has no trouble accessing online poker sites (as many of her US-born colleagues do).
She performed so well on the virtual felt, she quickly worked her way into Supernova Elite status on PokerStars. However, it wasn’t until 2013 that she stepped into the live tournament arena, and that’s when her career really took off.
Bicknell won the 2013 WSOP Ladies Event, claiming her first bracelet and a lofty prize of $173,922. For the next three years, that would remain the highest cash of her career. Then in 2016, the Canadian poker pro proved that she wasn’t just a one-hit wonder by winning the 2016 WSOP $1,500 NLHE Bounty. She took home her second bracelet, and her current largest live tournament cash of $290,768.
Although 2016 was a great year, it pales to her performance in 2017. Bicknell cashed in 28 events all over the world, banking US-$554,034. That earned her the GPI’s title of 2017 Female Player of the Year (#49 overall, including males). Kristen Bicknell isn’t just Canada’s best female poker pro – she’s the best in the world!
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