Marsha Waggoner

Marsha Waggoner ( born July 18, 1948 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian professional poker player.

Poker career

1976 Marsha Waggoner began as blackjack and poker dealer in a casino in Sydney. Soon after, she began to play Stud Poker itself. A year later, she moved with her ​​children to Reno (Nevada ). Here they could live off their winnings at the poker table. She also played here with also in tournaments and not only in cash games as before in Sydney. Only in the 1980s, they moved back to - this time in the "Poker stronghold " Las Vegas. In Hold'em and 7- Card Stud tournaments they could successfully provide their talents here. Despite their success drew Waggoner in 1987 to Southern California to continue their poker career there. Among their profits were, among others, in 1992 a second place in the Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo event ( $ 52,500 ), each a third place in Limit Omaha Hi / Lo 1995 ( $ 35,700 ) and 1999 ( $ 34,630 ) and a ninth place at the Seven Card Stud Hi -Low 8 or Better tournament in 2012 ( $ 12,822 ). Your earnings are so far at $ 0.9 million. Yet she also worked as a casino employee at the Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood.

Honors

In the movie Lucky You from 2007 Marsha Waggoner has a short cameo.

In founded in 2008, Women in Poker Hall of Fame, she was already included in the first year.

Private life

In the Hollywood Park Casino in 1997, she met her future husband Kenna James, whom she accused at their first meeting of cheating at the poker table. However, when he turned out to be innocent, initially developed a friendship, which then became a romance. Finally, they got married. In 2002, a brain aneurysm was diagnosed with. The operation in March 2002 was successful and Marsha Waggoner was able to return to the poker table again. In 2008 she separated from Kenna James.

She has three children and five grandchildren.