Barbara Enright: One of the Most Successful Female Poker Pros
Poker used to be a game played by men and men alone. But as this casino game evolves, more and more women have started to emerge. Furthermore, these women do not just play poker for fun. Just like men, they play seriously and professionally. Some can even defeat male players. Barbara Enright is one female professional poker player who is capable of defeating players of the opposite sex. As a matter of fact, she has already done it several times. Perhaps, male professional poker players should be threatened by her skills. But instead, they just simply admire the talent of this female professional poker player.
Barbara Enright was born in Los Angeles, California. She was only four years old when she learned how to play poker. During that time, the poker game she knew so well was the Five Card Draw, which she played against her brother. As she was growing up, she learned how to play other types of poker games. And when she reached the age of twenty one, Barbara Enright was already a full-fledged gambler. The first time this female professional poker player ever entered a cardroom was in 1976.
While she kept herself busy playing poker, Barbara Enright also had three other jobs to help her family. Her other jobs included being a cocktail waitress, a bartender and a hairstylist.
Because of her passion for poker, Barbara Enright became more and more determined to improve her poker skills. Such improvement allowed her to earn more and more money that came from her poker winnings. Before she knew it, poker started to become her main source of income until she could afford to quit being a cocktail waitress, bartender and hairstylist. Poker alone could already help her and her family financially.
Poker professionals know Barbara Enright for sure because she is the only female professional poker player to have ever reached the World Series of Poker final table.
This female professional poker player earned her first World Series of Poker bracelet in 1986, taking home a sum of US$16,400. In 1994, she once again won first place, allowing her to earn her second World Series of Poker bracelet and US$38,400. Both victories came from her participation in the Women's Seven-Card Stud event.
But it was in 1996 when this female professional poker player shocked poker players, most especially male poker professionals, with her victory in the Pot Limit Hold'em event of the World Series of Poker. Aside from the cash prize worth US$180,000 and her third World Series of Poker bracelet, Barbara Enright becomes the first female professional poker player to finish first place in an open event.
Because of her success in poker, she continues to play it for a living. She and her family are currently living in Hollywood, California.