July 15 2014, by Jennifer Newell

Women Out of WSOP Main Event

Through 65 poker tournaments at the 2014 World Series of Poker, women represented little more than five percent of the cumulative field. Some tournaments boasted of one or two women, while others had more than average. (This obviously excludes the Ladies World Championship event.)

The WSOP Main Event, which drew 6,683 players in total, looked to defy the odds, as a great number of women ran deep in the event. They looked to cash more than their registration percentage dictated, as an unofficial poll on Day 3 showed about 45 women still in the tournament out of 1,539 players.

At the start of Day 5, there were six women of the 291 players remaining. However, most of them fell throughout the afternoon and evening hours. Mikiyo Aoki finished second in this year’s WSOP Ladies Championship and was among the Main Event’s top 10 at one point on Day 5, but she lost her chips later and finished the tournament in 83rd place for $72,369.

That left Maria Ho as the only woman in the tournament. She was named “last woman standing” back in 2007 when she finished in 38th place in the Main Event, and she looked to better that finish. She played hard but ended Day 5 with the lowest of the final 79 players. She shipped her short stack all-in at the very beginning of Day 6 and busted the tournament in 77th place, which was worth $85,812.

Ho played hard and finished in a respectable position. She has earned more than $1.6 million in live tournaments, in addition to some impressive online poker scores and unknown cash game winnings.

 

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About the author

Jennifer Newell fell in love with poker while working for the World Poker Tour in Los Angeles. She left the company to live as a freelance writer with a heavy concentration on the poker world. It is not often that she travels to poker tournaments and less often that she plays the game, but she can always be found reading and writing about poker. You can find her on her FreelanceWriterJen Facebook page or @WriterJen on Twitter.