Melanie Weisner

[3] Born in Houston, Texas, Weisner studied vocal performance at New York University before pursuing poker full-time.

[4] Weisner earned over $400,000 of online tournament winnings playing part-time during her study at NYU.

On March 30, 2009, she took third out of 10,614 entrants for $40,000 in the Pokerstars Turbo Takedown, a tournament with an entry fee of frequent player points with a prize pool of $1,000,000.

[6] On May 16, 2010, Weisner finished second out of 8,896 entrants in Full Tilt Poker's Double Deuce 200k Guaranteed Tournament, for $24,000.

[12] Weisner is a contributor to the online poker radio show Cold Call hosted by Bryan Micon, Brandon Gerson and Adam Schoenfeld.

In December 2009, she qualified online for the European Poker Tour in Prague and won the Ladies Championship event there for €3100 ($4,646).

She then won the €1,000 Ladies Championship at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo for €25,000 ($33,282), after being atop the leaderboard of the Main Event for three days and finishing in 71st for €25,000.

She was defeated by Victoria Coren in the first ever all-female heads up final on the European Poker Tour.

[23] At the 2010 World Series of Poker, Weisner finished tied for 18th for $18,420 in the $10,000 No-Limit Heads-Up Championship event, losing to Vanessa Rousso in the fourth round.

At the 2012 World Poker Tour in Johannesburg, South Africa, Weisner claimed her first major title, taking down the $1,000 no-limit six-max event for $41,289, defeating former EPT champion Lucien Cohen heads-up.

The episode was a $50,000 buy-in, winner-take-all tournament and featured Tom Dwan, Doyle Brunson, Annette Obrestad, Eric Baldwin, and Andrew Lichtenberger.

[38] Weisner is featured on Late Night Poker's 2011 season, taking third place in the $10,000 shoot-out tournament.

Melanie Weisner