5 Biggest Gamblers in History

Vanessa Selbst

Vanessa Selbst is known around the world as one of the best poker players of all time. She is currently the only woman to have reached the number one spot on the Global Poker Index.

She has reached the final match of the World Series of Poker 8 times, and her lifetime earnings exceed 11 million dollars. She is the highest-earning female poker player in the world. All of this without ever being a full-time player as she studied Political Sciences at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.