Excellence Award – Terry Hatcher
Terry Hatcher
Regional WPA Advocate for Texas. Terry recruits members for WPA and promotes ladies’ events in Texas and Oklahoma.
In addition to volunteering for WPA, she has her TDA certification, she is a Dealer & Player who won her first WSOP Ladies Ring in July of 2019.
You see her every other week on Facebook Live as our LearnWPT Manager drawing a lucky lady’s name out of the bowl for WPAction Quiz.
We would like to thank Terry Hatcher for her contributions to WPA.
Terry’s Words:
I’m originally from Montreal and started playing cards in my teens around my French Canadian family, we played mostly for nickels and quarters, we laughed, we played, they drank and I took advantage of it, easy money!
I’ve always had a competitive drive. I was named the female athlete of the year in high school, and I played on numerous sports teams; hockey, softball, and skiing. And for the last 10 years, I’ve been training horses.
Living in Texas for the last 20 years and gambling occasionally, I only started playing poker more competitively in 2014 when I won a carnival cruise tournament. After winning the tournament, I received an invitation to a WPTLearn seminar in Las Vegas. After I walked out of the seminar with the confidence I needed, I went straight into the Rio, WSOP Series, played my first big tournament: the $1,000 senior event. I was given 3,000 chips, 4600 opponents, and came in 39th place for $12,000. That feeling was
one I hadn’t felt in a very long time. I was hooked on this new sport.
As I continued to play more competitively, the lack of women at the poker tables really surprised me. I became increasingly more passionate over the years to support women in poker, hosting the “Austin Poker Hotties” for a few years now and holding 3 consecutive titles. Additionally, I took the position as a Tournament Director at The Lodge Poker Club in Texas, and created several “women’s only poker tournaments”.
I have the drive to continue to pursue this passion of poker as a career and find pure joy railing and supporting women at the tables.
I was introduced to WPA at the very beginning of their journey. I didn’t need much convincing, anything I can do to help grow women’s poker, I was totally in.
It has been a few years now, I still feel that way and with even more passion. Representing at my local casino, on the floor at the local card houses or online at WPACTION QUIZ, from patching them up or consulting with various poker scenarios, I have created a group of friends, acquaintances, and an outlet for Women who play poker, all because of my representation of WPA.
Thank you for giving me that platform.