David Williams New Poker Stars Pro

PokerStars announced two new Team PokerStars pro members. One is a likely candidate and the other a surprise.

David Williams is a seasoned and relatively well known poker player who’s known mostly for his No Limit Hold’em performances. His live tournament winnings are nearly $8 million. He took second at the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event and took nearly $3.5 million home. He recently won the World Poker Tour championship and a cash prize of $1.5 million.

Though Williams has huge live tournament winnings, he’s no stranger to online play. He won a World Championship of Online Poker title in 2009 for a cash prize of $107,000.

A less likely appointment to Team Poker Stars is Vanessa Selbst, a student at Yale Law School. Selbst graduated from Yale with a degree in political science and says she’s been a lifelong fan of all kinds of games, from which her love of poker grew. Though she’s been playing for just a few short years, she has $1.6 million in live tournament winnings.

Selbst has made a showing at a WSOP final table (in 2006) and has one WSOP bracelet to her credit. This spring, she took the top spot at the PokerStars North American Poker Tour stop at the Mohegan Sun. Her cash winnings in that event were $750,000 and she was officially on the poker radar.

Both players are often found playing at PokerStars.com and play under the names “dwilliams” and “V.Selbst” respectively.