It\’s not often a WSOP Circuit event catches our eye, particularly when the final table is fighting for the lion\’s share of a $20k prizepool. But Event #10 in New Orleans, the last Circuit stop of the 09/10 poker year, was special, as Daphne \”Tweety\” Turner beat Allen Kessler to win the $300+40 Mixed Games event.
It was a $6,700 score. But more notably about her NOLA victory:
1. She becomes the first woman to win two circuit rings. (Watch out Dwyte Pilgrim.)
2. She\’s from Texas; Richmond to be exact, a big town in the sticks just outside of Houston. (Go Texas!)
3. She beat @AllenKessler heads-up; with all due respect to the Chainsaw, seeing
our favorite Vegas nit finish second makes \”Tweety\’s\” victory even better. (Wonder if she got that nickname before or after the creation of Twitter.)
4. The event she won was a 7-game mix, or as I like to think of it as of today, HORSE+Pokerati … or the Pokerati Game+HORSE. (No-Limit Hold\’em and PLO are the two added games.)
Here\’s Turner\’s interview after her win … the first woman to win two circuit events … and someone you might wanna be a little careful of should you see her at your table: