Name : Anna Wroblewski
Country : United States
Nicknames : poker pixie, viethottie21
Earnings : Around $820,000
2008 POY Rank : 534
2007 POY Rank : 2,175
Biography : listed below
Anna Wroblewski may be petite, small and single, but at such an early age, she holds a huge presence at the table. She burst onto the poker scene at the age of 18 and her story is one of “rags to riches.”
Beginning with her personal side, she was an orphan at age four in Vietnam and both her parents and baby sister passed away when she was very young. She has since then lived with different family members and finally when she was six or seven years old was sent to an orphanage. She and her other sister were both adopted by an American lady Marilyn Wroblewski in 1994, when she was about nine years old. Looking back she considers that she is more fortunate to be alive than being a poker player
She began playing poker when she was eighteen. It was her boyfriend in Chicago who taught her the basics of how to play poker. Being a beginner, she started playing with low stakes with a bunch of college students. After three months she got kind of hooked on to the game. Once she started winning big, she started to play in cash games shortly after. The more she played the more she won and she was hooked. Funnily, she did not even consider herself a good player
She shortly moved from Chicago to Las Vegas to play professional poker where she developed a gambling problem. Whenever she had funds in her account, she would move up stakes and would not stop playing until she got busted.
This is a common problem with most card players. They get carried away and lose a large amount. Eventually she busted her entire account and struggled with paying bills. The end result was she was forced to move back home to Chicago for five months.
She decided to travel back to Las Vegas for a second chance during the beginning of February in 2007. This time she felt that a job would help bring her some stability. She accepted a $10-an-hour job but took her first week’s paycheck straight to the casino.
She won a single-table tournament that got her a seat into a $2,000 buy-in preliminary event during the Bellagio Five Star Poker Classic tournament series. She cashed by placing sixteenth for a little more than $7,000. Wroblewski then used that money to buy into a $3,000 buy-in event. She took first place and the more than $337,000 prize that also came with a $25,000 seat in the World Poker Tour championship. Amazingly, she also cashed in that for more than $46,000.
And then there was no turning back
She was broke no more, and used her winnings to play in more tournaments. Noting that most of her accomplishments have come in the year 2007, her poker career seems to have a bright future.
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