Women in Poker

No longer is Poker a game played in a back room filled with cigar smoke, whiskey served by busty women in small costumes to rotund men. Even in the most fashionable manors, minus the busty waitresses, the smoke-filled rooms held only the men.

Today, poker is seen as a game of high fashion to which all the wild girls flock, including celebrities of all types and stars of stage and screen. And many of them are playing to win seats at high profile championships.

Take glamour model Abi Titmus for instance. She has signed on for this year's Ladbrokes Poker European Ladies Championship. She'll be in good company with 49 other women who will take part in the Championship in May. Titmus may be the most surprising addition to the lineup, but Ladbrokes Poker spokesperson Samantha Alleyne called the completion "the FA cup of the poker circuit...an unmissable tournament guaranteed to deliver a few shock results".

This tournament boasts many celebrity competitors. Many have proceeded to succeed at the highest levels of poker competition in the past, which speaks well of their abilities and the validity of this venue. Shannon Elizabeth, for example, went on to finish third at a National Heads-Up Poker Championship and Soccer AM's, Helen Chamberlain, came in an impressive second at the Ladbrokes Poker Million.