Inside Poker

PokerStars, the world's largest online poker room, has signed poker pro David Williams and Yale Law School student Vanessa Selbst to their professional ranks.  
 
Williams is one of the most successful poker players of all time with more than $7,923,630 in live tournament winnings. 

He finished runner-up to Greg Raymer in the 2004 WSOP main event, kick-starting a fine run of tournament success, including a 7 Card Stud WSOP bracelet in 2006.

More recently, he took down the WPT Championship for a cool $1,530,537. Williams is also a huge name online, with a PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title in an 8-Game tournament for a cash of $107,800 in 2009.   
 
Vanessa Selbst is a very different kettle of fish - she graduated from Yale with a degree in Political Science and is currently studying at Yale Law School. She has built an incredible set of results at major live tournaments, boasting $1,672,855 in live tournament earnings to date.
 
She made her first WSOP final table in 2006, when she finished 7th in a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event, winning $101,285.

Two years later, she won a WSOP bracelet playing a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event, cashing $227,993 and beating a daunting field of 759.

Selbst earned her biggest win earlier this year, taking top spot in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event. She took down the tournament for a huge cash of $750,000, confirming her status as a highly talented poker player.

* Williams and Selbst will play online at PokerStars.com using the screen names ‘dwilliams’ and ‘V. Selbst’.