Poker player rankings

The best female poker players

By All In Central · Updated 1 October 2026

Kristen Foxen is the most successful female tournament player of all time, with 6 WSOP bracelets and about $19.2M in live winnings. Here are the records that matter — bracelets, earnings, Main Event runs and the Hall of Fame — and the women who set them.

Most WSOP bracelets

Every woman with two or more. Open = events open to all players, including WSOP Online and WSOP Europe.

The women's all-time money list

Live tournament winnings, before buy-ins, from the Hendon Mob's women's list (mid-2026). Figures differ slightly between databases and change every week.

The deepest Main Event runs

No woman has won the WSOP Main Event. These are the best finishes we could confirm.

Women in the Poker Hall of Fame

• 2007Barbara EnrightThe first woman inducted.
• 2011Linda Johnson"The First Lady of Poker" — bracelet winner and industry pioneer.
• 2015Jennifer Harman

Milestones

1. 1982

   Vera Richmond wins the $1,000 Ace-to-Five Draw — generally cited as the first woman to win an open WSOP event.

2. 1995

   Barbara Enright finishes fifth in the Main Event, the first woman to reach its final table. A year later her third bracelet makes her the first woman with three.

3. 2002

   Kathy Liebert wins the first Party Poker Million and $1,000,000.

4. 2004

   Annie Duke wins the invitational WSOP Tournament of Champions, a winner-take-all $2,000,000 prize (not a bracelet event), and a bracelet in Omaha Hi-Lo the same year.

5. 2006

   Victoria Coren wins EPT London, the first woman to win a European Poker Tour main event.

6. 2007

   Barbara Enright becomes the first woman in the Poker Hall of Fame. In September, Annette Obrestad wins the first WSOP Europe Main Event a day before turning 19 — still the youngest bracelet winner.

7. 2010

   Liv Boeree wins EPT San Remo and €1,250,000.

8. 2014

   Vanessa Selbst becomes the first — and so far only — woman to reach No. 1 in the Global Poker Index. Victoria Coren Mitchell wins EPT Sanremo, the first player of either sex to win two EPT main events.

9. 2025

   Leo Margets finishes seventh in the Main Event for $1,500,000, the second woman ever at its final table.

10. 2026

    Kristen Foxen wins a sixth bracelet, twice as many as any other woman; a record 431 women enter the Main Event, about 4.7% of the field.

Common questions

Who is the best female poker player?

By the record, Kristen Foxen: she has the most WSOP bracelets of any woman (6, twice as many as anyone else) and leads the women's all-time live money list with about $19.2M. Vanessa Selbst, the only woman to reach No. 1 in the Global Poker Index, is second on the money list and one of three women tied for second on bracelets.

Has a woman ever won the WSOP Main Event?

No. The best finish is Barbara Enright's 5th place in 1995. Leo Margets finished seventh in 2025 for $1,500,000 — the only other woman to reach the final table.

Which woman has the most WSOP bracelets?

Kristen Foxen, with 6 — 5 of them in open events. Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright and Nani Dollison have three each.

Which women are in the Poker Hall of Fame?

Three: Barbara Enright (2007), Linda Johnson (2011), Jennifer Harman (2015). No woman has been inducted since 2015.

How many women play the WSOP Main Event?

A record 431 in 2026, about 4.7% of the field — up from 3.8% in 2025.

Sources: the WSOP's results, the Hendon Mob's women's all-time money list and PokerNews and Card Player coverage, checked in October 2026. Results were cross-checked between at least two of them; the money list is the Hendon Mob's own. Bracelets from the 1970s and early 1980s Ladies and Mixed Doubles events are hard to verify and may be incomplete. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.