Beverley Pace scooped $50,000
50-year-old Beverley Pace scooped $50,000 to win the inaugural PartyPoker Women’s World Open in London late last week. Bev, from Bromley, Kent, UK and wife of comedian and poker player Norman Pace, overcome UK form player Jen Mason in a heads-up battle in the televised tournament. After a number of swings Pace’s pocket sixes held-up all-in against Mason’s Ace Jack off suit. “I’m very happy,” said Bev. “This is my first big win and I intend to give myself a bankroll to play more tournaments for bigger stakes in the near future. I was sixth in the Ladies European Championship in April and went to the WSOP and Aussie Millions this year but haven’t really cashed significantly.” Bev has been married to husband Norman for 30 years and the couple are well known and popular on the UK circuit. She has been a part-time poker player for four and a half years and spends a lot of her spare time chairing the Meningitis Research Foundation charity. “Norman says that I’m a better player than him but I think we are probably about the same standard,” she said. 
Women’s tournaments are good for getting more ladies into the game ….said Bev. The tournament was PartyPoker’s first ever all-female event and was produced by Matchroom Sport. 36 players from across the globe battled it out for a share a $108,000 prize-fund. The buy-in for the tournament was set at $3,000, with the eventual winner taking home a cool $50,000. Amongst the line up was US trio Liz Lieu, Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth. Jennifer Tilly finished third in her heat that was won by Jen Mason, while Shannon Elizabeth and Liz Lieu both busted early in their heats. Other participants included Katharine Hartree, Xuyen “Bad Girl” Pham, former PartyPoker World Open winner Pippa Flanders, European Ladies champion Jackie Meecham and Lucy Rokach. The show will be televised in the UK later in the year on Five. Commentary will be provided by Jesse May and Shannon Elizabeth. Partypoker Women’s World Open:
- 1st Beverley Pace (Uk) $50,000
- 2nd Jen Mason (Uk) $22,000
- 3rd Maria Demetriou (Uk) $14,000
- 4th Bronwyn Campbell (Canada) $10,000
- 5th Jackie Vaswani (Uk) $7,000
- 6th Kara Scott (Uk) $5,000