The poker world is saturated with chubby grinders and forum trolls who would gladly trade their bar of soap in for a better redline any day. This being said, it’s no wonder why hysteria ensues any time a good-looking girl makes a solid run in the WSOP Main Event. And this year, all of the poker perverts were given quite a treat as Claudia Crawford gave a good effort in the 2011 Main Event.
The stacked southern provided photographers plenty of reasons to focus their cameras on her, including low-cut shirts and a big…..chip stack. And people really started paying attention when she had the 12th largest chip stack with just under 200 players left.
In fact, the search engines were blowing up with her name during the run, as alluded to by multiple sites. WickedChopsPoker wrote, “Given the amount of search engine traffic we’re getting on Claudia Crawford, let’s just give the people what they obviously want,” while CardKing commented, “it’s her photogenic qualities that have poker geeks across the globe burning up the search engines with Claudia Crawford searches.”
Besides her looks, one of the biggest reasons why people were crushing on Crawford is because she’s actually a poker player with prior live cashes, instead of some model who was hired by poker site X to look pretty, play a few hands, and pretend that she’s interested in the game when she doesn’t even know basic starting hand requirements.
Getting back to the subject, Crawford’s parade ended before was able to attain the “Last Woman Standing” title, which would have really put her into the upper echelon of poker fame. She busted out in 85th place, and earned a “measly” $76k cash for her finish. But with the pedestal that the poker world puts good-looking female players on, she has a good chance at getting a sponsorship deal.
This person finishing 85th in the Main Event is a minute, worthless dent in WSOP history
This person finishing 85th in the Main Event is enough to put the poker community in a frenzy
