Brandi Hawbaker, who began her career as an artist, became famous for being a professional poker player and is one of the most famous female poker players of all time, unfortunately for a lot of the wrong reasons.
Brandi first leaped to fame in the poker world during the World Poker Tour in 2006. A 35th place finish for over $20,000 and her good lucks brought her to the attention of the online poker world, but it was this picture that put her fame over the top:
After seeing that picture, it will be no surprise to you to learn that Brandi was a tad controversial as Brandi quickly became a cult personality in the poker world. It was all sex, drugs and rock and roll, and it ended sadly, like one would expect.
WSOP Main event Winner Tom Franklin took Brandi under his wing to mentor her. However things took a turn for the worse, when Brandi started making allegations about Franklin forcing himself on her. She next moved on to Mark Newhouse, and she proceeded to play on his online poker accounts and lose over $25,000. During arguments over this, Hawbaker at one point locked herself in the bathroom and cut herself.
Brandi was in a relationship later where she took all the things out of the persons house and sold them, keeping the money for herself.
There were many more incidents like this throughout her life, some factual, some we only know as rumours. Unfortunately the Brandi Hawbaker story ends on a sad fact, as she commited suicide on April 13th, 2008.
She was 26 years old.
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