Seat Open with Melanie Weisner

You follow players on Twitter, through live reporting, at live events, and online, but how did they get their start? What were they doing before they discovered poker? We're here to answer those questions and more for you.

In the first of this three-part series, poker pro Melanie Weisner opens up about her life growing up, and her very first time playing poker.

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