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"An Excuse to Get Back": WSOP Thrill Team Brings Vanessa Selbst Back to the Felt

Though she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in December 2022, it has been several years since Vanessa Selbst was last under the poker spotlight. The former PokerStars ambassador and three-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, arguably the best female poker player in history, left the game in 2018 to pursue a corporate job and start a family.

She now has a successful trading career, a wife, and two young children. But poker isn't completely in the rear-view mirror for the 39-year-old.