Vanessa Selbst Poker player

Vanessa K. Selbst (born July 9, 1984) is an American professional poker player and the number two ranked poker player in the world by the Global Poker Index. She is also the only woman to have ever reached the #1 position. She has over 10 million dollars in live poker tournament earnings and is a member of Team Pokerstars Pro, where she plays under the username "V. Selbst".Selbst has three World Series of Poker bracelets and is the first and only female to win three WSOP bracelets in open field events. She is also the only poker player to win the same North American Poker Tour Main Event back-to-back. In January 2013 Selbst won the PCA high roller for $1.4m, which made her the highest earning female in poker history.Selbst was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before transferring to Yale University, where she graduated with a degree in Political Science. She later returned to Yale Law School and received her law degree in 2012. During her time at Yale University, she was head of the Yale Queer-Straight Alliance. Selbst was a coach and executive producer for DeucesCracked, an online poker training site. In 2013, she married her partner of three and a half years. She and her wife reside in New York.