Melanie "Callisto" Weisner

Melanie Weisner is a young poker pro who made her first live event cash in 2009. Since then she has cashed 21 times, including 7 WSOP cashes. She has won events on the EPT twice and earned close to $300,000. During that time she also had several notable online tournament wins.

Born in Houston, Texas on September 30, 1986, Melanie was introduced to poker by her brother who had found success playing online. While studying vocal performance at New York University, she started playing online as “Callisto 5” and it wasn’t long before she had earned over $400,000. Some of her notable online tournament cashes were: $40,000 in a PokerStars Turbo Takedown in 2009; $24,000 in Full Tilt Poker\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s Double Deuce 200k Guaranteed Tournament, and $50,398 in a PokerStars Sunday $500 in 2010.

After graduating in 2009, Melanie turned her attention to a career in poker; making her first live cash of $7,140  when she finished 4th in the $500 NLHE Deep Stack at the United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City. Her other cash that year was at the EPT Prague, which she had qualified for online. There she won the €300 NLHE Ladies Championship for €3,100.

In the first of her 11 cashes in 2010, Melanie repeated her previous EPT final table performance by finishing 4th in the EPT Deauville €200 NLHE Ladies Event to collect €1,600. Her next cash was in Atlantic City at the Borgata Winter Open, before she made the final table at the EPT San Remo, finishing 6th in the €300 NLHE for €2,100.

Keeping her EPT streak going, Melanie finished 71st for €25,000 in the €10,000 NLHE Main Event, and won the €1,000 NLHE Ladies Event for €23,000 at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. At the 2010 WSOP, she came in 32nd in the $10,000 NLHE Heads-up Championship for $17,987 and finished 56th in the $2,500 NLHE for $11,607.  After the WSOP, Melanie was runner-up for €23,000 in the €2,700 NLHE Heads-up Main Event at the Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes, and cashed at the EPT London.  In Los Angeles for the NAPT, she made the final table in the $2,000 NLHE event and finished 6th to take home $7,665. Her last cash of the year was at the EPT Prague in the €5,000 Main Event Day NLHE where she came in 12th to collect €30,000.

For the first nine months of 2011, Melanie had 8 money finishes, including 5 at the WSOP. Her first cash of the year was at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure where she finished 21st in the $2,000 NLHE for $7,390. Next she was in Spain for the EPT Madrid where she cashed in 42nd place in the €10,000 NLHE Main Event for €25,000.

At the 2011 WSOP, Melanie’s best showing out of her 5 cashes was in the $1,500 NLHE, where she finished 14th out of a field of 2,192 to take home $24,679.

Now making her home in New York, Melanie was featured on “Idol Week” of NBC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s Poker After Dark and Late Night Poker for the 2011 season.  On the $50,000 buy-in winner take all Poker After Dark episode, she competed against Doyle Brunson, Tom Dwan, Annette Obrestad, Eric Baldwin, and Andrew Lichtenberger. In that contest, Melanie took third place, losing to the eventual winner, Tom Dwan. When away from the poker table, Melanie is a contributor to the online poker radio show, Cold Call.