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Introduction

The well known sports betting and poker website Bodog has already made a commitment on its website this year to enter a strong women’s contingent to the 2010 WSOP – a commitment backed-up this week with the announcement that up and coming women’s poker pro Amanda Musumeci is to join Team Bodog for the tournament.

Amanda who?

Don’t know who this Amanda is - but I hope she likes playing poker?

You could be forgiven for asking – Amanda who? However, the fact is that despite only just being 26 years of age and having only been playing poker for three years – she’s already notched up some impressive finishes and wins. Her most notably win so far was under her online poker tag as ‘manderbutt’ – taking third place in Full Tilt Poker’s $150k tournament. OK, perhaps not quite the big time yet, but she is surely one of the most promising younger women poker players around and is certainly ready to start challenging the likes of Kathy Liebert or Annie Duke. Amanda readily acknowledges the support she’s had from fellow pro poker players like Matt Stout and Dan Kelly in developing her game so quickly. Surely an inspiration to any poker player that if you’ve got the drive to play online poker seriously, there’s no reason at all why you too can’t compete for the big prizes.

Bodog going for girl power?

Needless to say Bodog are well aware that she still needs support, so it’s little surprise that Team Bodog already has onboard Evelyn Ng to mentor Amanda Musumeci through the tournament. With Evelyn’s support Amanda will be looking to concentrate on $2-5k and Main Events, both online and in the casinos. Away from the poker table both Amanda and Evelyn enjoy shooting pool – so they’ll be quite comfortable relaxing together after a long poker session at the Las Vegas tables. Amanda is quite focused as to why she’s opted to join Team Bodog, when other poker teams were courting her to join them. With Bodog still in the process of re-building itself she feels she’ll be able to get more attention and encouragement to develop as she won’t be competing with other big-name women poker players within a team, apart from Evelyn of course.

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