Susie Isaacs Wins First LIPS Title
February 02, 2008 - Deanna Goodson
On January 19, 2008 a bunch of ladies took to the felt at the Orleans Casino, just a wee bit off the Las Vegas strip. Sitting amongst the crowd were two poker icons, Barbara Enright and Susie Isaacs. Both ladies will be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in early February (and deservedly so).
Only 44 entrants paid their $150 + $25 to play in the tournament. Perhaps the rest of the gals were voting in the Nevada caucuses. Politics takes a back seat to poker for some, but not the ladies at the Orleans on that special Saturday morning.
They fought over one of the biggest prizes in ladies poker, a seat at the LIPS Tour championship this July. Every woman wanted to win. However, only one woman could. The road to the win wasn’t smooth, however. Susie Isaacs nearly busted out of the event on the fifth hand of play. Her pocket aces were trumped by the set of queens her opponent made on the river.
Ouch!
With just 450 of her 5,000 chips left, Isaacs, a two-time WSOP Ladies Seven Card Stud champion and author of the new novel, “White Knight, Black Nights”, battled back. The woman knows how to handle a short stack. Six hours later, after getting heads up with Briana Bramer, the lady emerged a winner.
Congrats to Susie Isaacs on her first LIPS win. We know it won’t be her last.
Here are the results:
1) Susie Isaacs - $2,310 + $330 seat
2) Briana Bramer - $1,650
3) Ann Babkowski - $990
4) Mirasol Lontoc - $725
5) Mary Ann Bianchi - $595
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