June 02 2014, by Jennifer Newell
Tilly Keeps Trying at WSOP
Jennifer Tilly is a longtime poker player and general fan of the game. When the WSOP comes to Las Vegas, she is there will bells on.
She exploded onto the poker scene in 2005 when she won the WSOP Ladies Championship. Tilly has numerous final tables under her belt and various victories, including tournaments at the Bellagio. Since she began playing large live tournaments, she has accumulated over $891K in earnings.
When Tilly and longtime partner Phil Laak arrived at the Rio in Las Vegas for the WSOP, she used her @Jtillathekilla2 Twitter account to exclaim her excitement:
First day of @wsop! I am a little more excited than Phil! @PhilLaak #WSOP pic.twitter.com/bOaYeZdD9G
— Jennifer Tilly (@Jtillathekilla2) May 27, 2014
She started by playing the second event of the 65-tournament World Series, and after buying in for $25K, she was eliminated. She also played the recent $1K buy-in Millionaire Maker tournament but busted on her first hand.
Nevertheless, Tilly is still excited and will play more events throughout the summer.
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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.
