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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Barbara Enright tops Cleopatra tournament

By Sarah Polson

The ladies got their turn at the felt on Monday in the World Series of Poker Circuit events taking place at Caesars Palace. It was only fitting that one of poker's royal females would win the tournament nicknamed the Cleopatra Open.

Barbara Enright braved the field of 165 women who anted up the $340 buy-in for the tournament. Enright wasn't the only inaugural inductee into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame to enter the tournament either. Marsha Wagoner and Susie Isaacs were also in attendance.

While Wagoner and Isaacs were eliminated during the nine hours of play it took to get to the final table, Enright survived and was sitting third in the chip count.

Third in chips, however, still left Enright holding less than half of what the chip leader, Donna Dougherty, was holding.

Dougherty held onto that lead during the final table up until play got down to four-handed. Four-handed play dragged on for an hour as Dougherty's lead was chipped away.

A big blow for Dougherty came against Linh Vuong, who took half of her chips during one hand. Then Dougherty called an all-in move by Enright.

Dougherty seemed to be sitting well with pocket fours against Enright's 9-8, but Enright spiked a nine on the flop and her bigger pair held up to eliminate Dougherty in fourth place.

Next out was Bea Hinton, leaving Enright and Vuong to battle heads-up.

When heads-up began, Vuong had a slight chip lead over Enright, but after getting lucky and catching a five to pair her K-5 against Vuong's K-T, Enright took the lead. Several hands later, Enright was finally able to finish the match as well.

Enright called Vuong's all-in bet with pocket fives against Vuong's 6-2. On a board of K-J-3-4-2, Enright's fives held up for the win.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Hometown	Prize
1st	Barbara Enright	Los Angeles	$15,558
2nd	Linh Vuong	Dallas	$8,163
3rd	Bea Hinton	Las Vegas	$4,802
4th	Donna Dougherty	Wilmington, Del.	$3,841
5th	Garilyn Nelson	Ogden, Utah	$2,881
6th	Anie Lepaye	Las Vegas	$2,401
7th	Barbara Payne	Washington state	$1,921
8th	Sheila Raines	Freemont, Calif.	$1,440
9th	Michelle Richey	Las Vegas	$960

Action in the WSOPC Caesars Palace stop continues today as the main event begins its second day of play. As always, Las Vegas is the place to be if you want to see some familiar faces with your poker action.

Day 1 brought out quite a few poker pros who don't normally take on the WSOPC events. Among those who didn't make it out of Day 1 were Jeff Madsen, Erik Seidel, Erick Lindgren, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Scotty Nguyen, David Singer, Erica Schoenberg, Amanda Baker and more.

There's still plenty of stargazing to do when Day 2 kicks off at noon today. Among the 54 who survived were Danny Wong, Justin Bonomo, Mark Newhouse, David Levi, Alex Kravchenko, Nenad Medic, Bill Edler, Allen Cunningham and more, plus PokerListings bloggers Steve Wong and J.C. Alvarado.

Poker fans can follow the action as the PokerListings reporting team brings the best live updates, reports, photos, interviews and more to be found online in the Live Tournaments section.

With the World Series of Poker fast approaching, the best place to see the pros in action will be in Las Vegas in the coming months. While PokerListings will as always be on scene to provide updates, there are plenty of ways for poker fans to make it to the events themselves as well.

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