A Kelowna woman is $1.5 million richer after winning an online poker tournament.
Vanessa Kade beat out almost 70,000 other contestants for the top prize in the PokerStars Sunday Million 15th Anniversary tournament, which ended Tuesday night (March 23).
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According to her LinkedIn, Kade has been playing poker professionally for the last seven years.
Shesa国际传媒檚 also famous on the online streaming platform Twitch.
Previously, Kade made headlines in the poker world by calling out online poker platform GGPoker for making controversial figure Dan Bilzerian a brand ambassador and criticizing sexism in poker. GGPoker subsequently cancelled an affiliate deal it had with Kade.
Kade has now signed with a new team, Americasa国际传媒檚 Cardroom.
Well, finally responded to the Bilzerian mess, by terminating my residual affiliate account from way back (idgaf) - a day after International Womensa国际传媒檚 Day, and not acknowledging any wrongdoing or anything remotely close to an apology.
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Seems about right.
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