The votes are in, and this yr’s inductees of the Girls in Poker Corridor of Fame are Kristen Foxen, Jeanne Davis, and Stella Brodie. Girls in Poker Corridor of Fame members and sure media and trade insiders made their alternative from the ladies the general public nominated final month.
Kristen Foxen
Arguably the hardest feminine participant on the planet, Foxen has been enjoying at a excessive stage since she was in school. A four-time International Poker Index Award Feminine Participant of the 12 months (2024, 2017, 2018, 2019), she sits on prime of the listing with lower than two months to go.
All eyes had been on Foxen as she practically made the ultimate desk of this yr’s World Sequence of Poker Important Occasion, bowing out in thirteenth.
The 2013 WSOP Women champion personal 5 bracelets, three of which got here on-line in 2020, 2023, and 2024, and he or she is likely one of the few ladies who could possibly be discovered constantly enjoying in excessive curler tournaments — she made the ultimate desk of a $15,000 occasion on the PokerGO Tour in September (sixth for $57,000), and can quickly surpass the $9 million lifetime tourney mark.
The $600,000 she received for going deep within the WSOP Important Occasion is her largest money, one in all 26 cashes within the six-figures.
Jeanne David
A poker trade choice, Jeanne David has been a behind-the-scenes participant within the poker world for twenty years. The Girls in Poker Corridor of Fame write up outlines her {qualifications} effectively:
“A well known Blended Sport event participant, Jeanne has contributed to the world of poker in some ways. David was the pinnacle of accountable gaming for the biggest poker web site on the earth, PokerStars, till she retired a couple of years in the past.
She was very lively in legislative work across the US and Europe, selling the legalization and regulation of on-line poker. She assisted within the success of legalizing on line poker for Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Nevada.
She was an lively Nevada state lobbyist and made a number of journeys as much as Reno and Sacramento to talk to senators about how accountable gaming might be in integrated into each on-line poker web site. She spoke in entrance of Parliament within the Netherlands, and had a number of conferences with the UK Playing fee addressing accountable gaming and the prevention of playing dependancy.
Jeanne can be a distinguished member of the blended sport group selling blended sport tournaments round Las Vegas. She created a distribution listing the place she informs gamers in regards to the blended sport tournaments and video games are being held on the town. She has held grasp lessons instructing blended video games and all the time tries to get ladies concerned within the tournaments by providing free novices classes.
Whereas she retired from the trade in 2021, she by no means slowed down in relation to the poker group. She last tabled the $1500 WSOP Razz event proper earlier than Covid, and not too long ago hosted the HORSE event on the Malta Poker competition within the midst of getting two coronary heart surgical procedures!
David has virtually $250K in event cashes by which 95% of them are in Blended Video games.”
Starla Brodie is first Pioneer inductee
Becoming a member of the 2 ladies is Stella Brodie because the Girls in Poker Corridor of Fame’s first “pioneer” inductee. The class will honor ladies “who’re deserving of induction however their tales or contributions aren’t well-known. Girls who took a seat on the highest ranges and had been revered for his or her capability and success. These ladies had been actual trailblazers in poker.”
Brodie matches the class completely.
She received her first bracelet in 1979 as a part of a mixed-doubles group with Doyle Brunson. Her second and final bracelet got here in a $1,000 buy-in Girls’s Seven Card Stud occasion in 1995.
The Girls in Poker Corridor of Fame calls Brodie “an inspiration and position mannequin for ladies like Linda Johnson, encouraging them to compete within the largest video games in poker.”
Brodie died in 2014.
The ladies shall be formally inducted into the Corridor of Fame Dec. 11, on the Plaza Resort and On line casino. The 11 a.m. luncheon options 2022 inductee Jennifer Tilly because the keynote speaker. Tickets for the ceremony are $60 and might be bought right here.
