Vanessa Selbst discusses her incredible rate of tournament success on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV.
Check out her interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV and you can hear about what it is like to balance attending law school at Yale with playing in the largest buy-in poker tournaments during school breaks.
Selbst won the North American Poker Tour event at Mohegan Sun in April and took home $750,000. She talks about which part of her law education helps with poker and vice-versa. Selbst touts being a well-rounded individual, and using her law degree for the benefit of others. She also talks about the controversy surrounding the World Series of Poker ladies event. The interview finishes with a discussion of building profiles of her opponents at the table.
Watch part I of the Vanessa Selbst interview on this week’s episode of The Scoop below:
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