In today’s World Series of Poker review, Kristen Bicknell becomes the first female winner of the year with victory in the $1,500 Bounty No-Limit Hold’em event, and Shaun Deeb wins his second career bracelet in the baby Seven Card Stud event.

Kristen Bicknell has become the first female to earn a bracelet at the 47th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the first since Carol Fuchs won the $1,500 Dealers Choice Six-Handed competition on Sat, 27 June 2015.

Canadian Bicknell only plays poker part-time, preferring to focus on studying nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle for the most part, and yet she has managed to win two gold bracelets – her first coming in 2013 when she topped a field of 954 entrants to capture the Ladies Championship for $173,922.

It was a well-contested event. It seems the players love the $500 per head bounty. One player earned over 20; Bicknell picked up 17 for an additional $9,000 to go with her $290,768 top prize. The tournament attracted 2,158 entrants and created a prize pool of $1,834,300.