Seat 6: La Sengphet (245,000)
La Sengphet of Dallas, Texas took the World Series of Poker Circuit by storm back in February over Valentine’s Day weekend when she took down Ring Event #8 at Harrah’s Tunica. What made the occasion so special was the fact that Sengphet captured her first ring, matching the feat her boyfriend, David Clark, accomplished weeks earlier by winning the Ring Event #1 at the Choctaw stop.
With the victory, Sengphet became the first woman to win a gold ring since Daphne Turner at Harrah’s New Orleans in May 2010. Not only that, she managed to take $32,394 in prize money. Sengphet would not stop there. She amassed a total of seven cashes throughout the 2010/2011 WSOP-Circuit totaling $67,094, which earned her an “At-lagrg bid” in the National Championship. One of those cashes, a victory in a $345 buy-in no-limit hold’em event, also awarded her a second gold ring.
Sengphet starts the day second in chips and has position on the chip leader; as such, it’s not hard to imagine that she’ll go deep and likely equal or surpass her current WSOP-C earning here today.