Player Profiles: Seat 5: Rania Nasreddine
Rania Nasreddine has pulled off an incredible feat at EPT Barcelona, making back-to-back Main Event final tables. The 44-year-old finished third for €442,900 in Monte Carlo earlier this year, by far the biggest score of her poker career. But she could top it this week.
Nasreddine, a lawyer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, already had plenty of live poker experience before her maiden EPT final. Still, she downplayed her talent. “I’m not that good,” she said at the time. “I’m outkicking my coverage, as we say in America.”
But here she is, once again playing on an enormous stage with another six-figure score guaranteed, so don’t let her modesty fool you. Throughout the Barcelona Main Event, she’s shown not only how you build chip-leading stack, but how you recover when you’re down and almost out. At one point sitting with just seven big blinds, Nasreddine charged back and entered the penultimate day with the biggest stack.