888Poker’s Jessica Dawley: It’s Time to ‘Go Big or Go Home’ at the 2016 WSOP

888 Poker Pro Jessica Dawley is coming into the 2016 World Series of Poker on a hot streak and ready to roll with it.

“I’m definitely on a momentous upswing, and in poker, momentum is everything,” Dawley told PokerNews. “In any sport for that matter, when you get momentum going, you kind of have to ride with it.”

She cashed three times at the 2015 WSOP, but things really heated up for Dawley in the Fall of last year when she booked a fifth-place finish for $92,206 at the Borgata Million and captured a career-best $110,304 score, finishing sixth at the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open in Hollywood, Florida a month later.

Two cashes at the 2016 Aussie Millions to start the year, and a few more in South Florida, where the former Air Force intelligence analyst and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom veteran calls home, and she comes into the 2016 WSOP feeling like she’s running good and playing even better.

“At the beginning of my career, in like 2006/2007, I played a lot of tournaments for fun mostly,” Dawley said. “I was trying to make money, but I realized I didn’t really know what I was doing. Then I realized my meat and potatoes was cash games. That’s how you make it this long in poker, you have to play cash to supplement your income. I played a few tournaments here and there, but I wasn’t a tournament player. I didn’t know shove charts, I didn’t know a lot of that stuff, but last year before the World Series, I figured I would …

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