Barbara Freer

Barbara Freer was a World Series of Poker champion, winning the 1979 400 dollar Ladies Limit 7 Card Stud event, and she was the first woman to have played in an open WSOP event, in 1979. As of 2008 her total WSOP tournament winnings exceeded 39,775 dollars. The English Wikipedia article on her is very short: it gives no birth date, birthplace or nationality, so this entry is limited to her title, her place in the history of women at the series and her tournament earnings. Her title came in a Ladies event, one of the women-only events of the series, and the World Series of Poker is the competition that defines this group of athletes in the atlas.