The $100,000 guaranteed for the $2,500 Ladies event at the Venetian DeepStacks series was shattered as two starting days brought-in 117 entries who generated a prize pool of $257,400.
Part of the LIPS Women in Poker Series that also held a bunch of events at South Pointe, it was the group’s first high roller event.
Tirza Sanders topped a final table that was broadcast live via the Venetian poker room’s YouTube channel. She beat Isabelle Dang heads-up for the $67,846 on top. Dang took $43,251 for second.
Heads-up play took more than three hours and ended when Sanders cracked Dang’s pocket kings with Q8 offsuit.
It was Sander’s second largest cash, after the $90,432 she won by becoming the 2024 World Poker Tour Ladies Champion in December.
The high roller event is all part of a de facto Ladies week in Las Vegas. Besides th LIPS Women in Poker Series and meet-up games going on, a $800 Ladies Mystery Bounty tournament takes place any the Aria today.
All this leads into tomorrow’s start of the World Series of Poker’ s$1,000 Ladies event
Sanders told organizers afterwards that she plans to play in both of those, and is thinking about playing in the $10,000 Main Event, which begins July 2.
She said she had it in her mind to use the high roller event at a satellite into the Main Event, so it looks like she’ll delay returning home to Arizona by at least a few days — and maybe nearly a month — if she happens to run deep.
The high roller win pushed her lifetime tournament earnings over the $200,000 mark.
| Place | Player | Prize |
| 1 | Tirza Sanders | $67,846 |
| 2 | Isabelle Dang | $43,251 |
| 3 | Jacqueline Burkhart | $28,697 |
| 4 | Shamica Lamar | $19,849 |
| 5 | Lisa Schuessler | $14,338 |
| 6 | Marie Kabaki | $10,839 |
| 7 | Monika Zukowicz | $8,592 |
