Earlier this yr, the WSOP App introduced their inaugural “Thrill Group,” which was made up of seven poker superstars who’ve received a number of thousands and thousands {dollars}, gold bracelets and circuit rings within the dwell poker world, and at the moment are going all-in to win digital bracelets, rings, and trophies on the free-to-play app.
Samantha Abernathy was one in every of seven members alongside Patrik Antonius, Espen Jorstad, Vanessa Selbst, Adam Hendrix, Landon Tice, and Ethan “Rampage” Yau.
Abernathy, who’s presently based mostly in Andorra, a small nation within the Pyrenees mountains in between Spain and France, just lately chatted with PokerNews about her expertise with the app to date.
“I’m regularly touring, attempting to see as a lot of Europe as doable and embrace the variations in life over right here,” she instructed PokerNews. “Nowadays, I’m primarily taking part in dwell and on-line multi-table tournaments (MTTs). Most just lately, I participated within the European Poker Tour in Prague, Paris and London, in addition to WSOP Europe, and – after all – the WSOP in Vegas.”
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Making a Run within the Women Occasion
It was whereas in Vegas that Abernathy made a deep run in Occasion #67: $1,000 Women Championship, finally ending 31st out of 1,295 entries for $5,385.
“The WSOP is at all times an exciting time, and this yr was an enriching expertise as at all times. One spotlight that stands out was my deep run within the women occasion. I witnessed tons of newer gamers sharing the fervour for the sport, which made it such a tremendous setting to play in. Whereas I didn’t money the Primary Occasion this yr, I’m at all times grateful for the chance to take part and eagerly stay up for the fun of subsequent yr.”
“For the reason that WSOP app’s launch 10 years in the past, it has been downloaded thousands and thousands of instances and has helped introduce poker to so many gamers.”
Whereas on the Horseshoe and Paris, Abernathy was capable of characterize the WSOP Thrill Group alongside her teammates.
“I really feel an immense sense of accountability as an inaugural Thrill Group member – the sport of poker has executed a lot for me and I am excited to make use of my platform to convey consciousness to the free WSOP cell app in order that the fun of dwell poker can attain much more individuals,” stated Abernathy.
She continued: “For the reason that WSOP app’s launch 10 years in the past, it has been downloaded thousands and thousands of instances and has helped introduce poker to so many gamers. In truth, my Thrill Teammate Ethan Yau and I each began taking part in poker by means of the WSOP app. The WSOP believes poker is a recreation for everybody, and it supplied a supportive house for me after I started my journey. It was an actual full circle second to be requested to be an envoy for the app that gave me my begin within the recreation.”
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VIP Occasion Throughout WSOP
Not solely did she characterize the WSOP Thrill Group on the felt, however she additionally took half in a particular VIP occasion for gamers on the app.
As she instructed it: “To have a good time the WSOP Primary Occasion closing desk, the official WSOP free-to-play app flew VIP gamers to Vegas to compete in a non-public poker event. Earlier than the event kicked off, I used to be capable of meet the customers and hosted a Q&A. It was superior to fulfill gamers who, like me, have perfected their poker expertise by means of the WSOP app – as I discussed, I started taking part in poker by means of the WSOP app. The WSOP has enabled these gamers to expertise the joy of poker by testing their expertise on the free-to-play app, however with this occasion, WSOP went one step additional and introduced them collectively to recreate that feeling in actual life.”
For these fascinated with taking part in with Abernathy, they’ll accomplish that on the on-line tables and within the new characteristic referred to as “WSOP Groups” the place you’ll be able to create your personal poker staff, add different gamers, and play poker collectively.
So, what’s subsequent for Abernathy?
“I’ll positively be going to EPT Barcelona, it’s one in every of my favourite stops. I’ll seemingly go to Cyprus, and I’d attempt to make it over to the Bahamas for the brand new WSOP sequence this winter!”
You’ll be able to observe Abernathy on her Instagram @samabernathyy.
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