She Took Down Maurice Hawkins; Now Susan Faber’s Chasing WSOP Main Event Cash

After Kristen Foxen’s run to Thirteenth-place in final 12 months’s Major Occasion, there’s loads of consideration being given even at this early stage to feminine poker gamers.

Three-time bracelet-winner Vanessa Selbst, Day 1d chip chief Riva Arthur, Esther Taylor and Kathy Liebert all superior from their beginning flights, in addition to Susan Faber, who’s sitting on a wholesome stack with one stage left in Day 2abc.

A former bracelet winner herself, she’s poised for a deep run in poker’s most prestigious event.

Two Rings to Encourage Confidence

“It appears like a very long time in the past,” Faber mentioned, reflecting on her 2019 WSOP bracelet win within the Salute to Warriors occasion. “I miss the Rio,” she added, referencing the previous dwelling of the WSOP, now held at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Final summer time, she captured not one, however two WSOP Circuit rings in Cherokee, North Carolina. Her first win got here after beating document ring-winner Maurice Hawkins heads-up, denying him his nineteenth WSOP Circuit ring.

“That gave me some self-confidence,” she mentioned. “Heading into this 12 months’s WSOP, I simply thought ‘I am going to go try this once more!'”

To date within the Major Occasion, that confidence is paying off. “There’s been some massive confrontations, however I appear to have received all of them!” Faber smiled. “I am over 400,000 now, in order that’s good. If I can cling onto that, I will be glad.”

The Aim? To Money the Major Occasion

Faber is at the moment sharing a desk on Day 2 with two different girls, Yael Pilo Raz and Nadya Magnus, and famous a earlier encounter with Raz. “I performed with [Raz] within the Ladies’s occasion,” she mentioned.

When requested if that have helped her navigate the Major, she laughed: “Most likely!”

This marks Faber’s third try on the WSOP Major Occasion. Whereas she’s but to money, she’s feeling optimistic and targeted on breaking by means of this time. “Cashing’s the aim for positive!”

Based mostly in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract dwell reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time workers in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.