World-record skydiver wins WSOP ladies title, 1st bracelet

World record-holding skydiver, radiologist and present World Series of Poker bracelet winner.

Lara Eisenberg won the $1,000 buy-in Ladies No-limit Hold’em Championship connected Thursday astatine the Rio, prevailing successful a tract of 644 entries to gain $115,694.

Eisenberg was portion of a 400-person enactment skydiving squad that acceptable a satellite grounds successful Thailand successful 2006, and she works arsenic a radiologist successful Maryland.

She savored the triumph but said poker would stay a broadside involvement and not a career.

“Probably conscionable support doing what I’m doing,” she told PokerGO. “It’s going to beryllium hard to walk my time occupation up entirely, but I’m going to proceed to play, and erstwhile I discontinue I’ll astir apt beryllium playing a small spot more.”

Eisenberg defeated Debora Brooke heads-up for the bracelet. In the last hand, Eisenberg went all-in connected the stream with a brace of kings with a queen kicker, and Brooke called and mislaid with kings with an 8 kicker.

Brooke earned $71,507.

The WSOP awards trophy bracelets for tourney victories.

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