A quick round-up of the live tournament scene in the States including another female victory thanks to Vanessa Truong’s World Series of Poker Circuit success, and a couple of old timers bringing home the bacon.

What a sterling week it has been for poker players who are female. We already covered the £1m win by Maria Lampropulos in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Dusk till Dawn, and now we bring you news of another big score, this time Stateside.

Vanessa Truong has taken down the $1,675 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Main Event at the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) in Harrah’s Cherokee. Truong defeated a field of 1,164 entrants to take down the $318,646 first prize, her one and only recorded cash in the Hendon Mob database.

Truong, a nail technician from Raleigh, North Carolina, eliminated six of the eight other members of the final table including the last four. The last player to hit the rail was Daniel Pearlman who also banked a lifetime best of $196,809, after losing a three and a half hour heads-up slog.