High Heels academy student wins tournament
Mirta Estrada on Miami won a High Heels Poker Tour Academy tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
She outlasted 64 players, including poker pros Karina Jett (who Estrada is pictured with) and Lisa Adams.
Estrada was a student in the High Heels Poker Tour seminar the day before.
"The lab tutorials were very beneficial in pointing out weakness in my play and how to make the needed adjustments," she said.
The finishers: Mirta Estrada, Miami, $4,000; Marisa Stellar, Parkland, $2,340; Wendy Dry, Oakridge, Tenn., $1,555; Rosanna Derosa, Miramar, $1,100; Lisa Teebagy, Lighthouse Point,
$815; Paula Alibrandi, Miramar, $630; Christine Difiore, Plantation, $500; Karina Jett, Las Vegas, $400.
The tour hits Derby Lane in St. Petersburg on April 25, then Harrah's New Orleans Turning Stone Casino Resort in New YOrk.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
